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Victor Hugo’s literary masterpiece, “Les Miserables,” was first published in 1862 and would ultimately establish the author as one of the most gifted and influential writers of his time. The novel is principally concerned with the story of ex-convict Jean Valjean, a man who is initially imprisoned for stealing bread for his starving family, and because of numerous escape attempts ends up being imprisoned for a period of nineteen years. Jean Valjean, despite his efforts to become a force for good in the world cannot escape the consequences of his criminal past. The novel paints a picture of nineteen century Paris, in all its gritty detail, as a time of great conflict. Themes of moral redemption, politics, justice, and human rights are vividly expressed as Hugo follows the lives and struggles of the lower classes of Parisian society in the 19th century. This sprawling epic is at once a brilliant fictional narrative and a sharp criticism of the social and economic injustice that the countless impoverished peoples of the world have faced. A tale of heroism and love, “Les Miserables,” is justifiably regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written. This edition follows the translation of Isabel F. Hapgood.
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Based on the Victor Hugo novel of the same name (penned when the author was only twenty-one), this macabre play begins in a morgue. The fearsome outlaw, Hans of Iceland, whose face has been seen by no one, determines to kill a regiment of Musketeers that he blames for the death of his son. His revenge intersects in a bloody way with the more conventional romantic plot of a young nobleman who loves the daughter of a political prisoner that the former Chancellor of Norway has held in thrall for many years. The tension ratchets up, culminating in a conflagration à la Samson that seems to anticipate the Grand Guignol movement by nearly a century. The story has the nightmarish logic of a bad dream. As one contemporary reviewer said: «If genius is very close to madness, then this work is very close to genius.» Great drama from a great writer!
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This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 10090 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Les Misérables • Notre-Dame De Paris • Poems • L'homme qui rit. English • The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other TalesBret Harte • International Short Stories: French • Toilers of the Sea • Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books • Napoleon the Little • The Memoirs of • The Dramas of: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda • The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Histoire d'un crime. English • MEMOIR OF VICTOR MARIE HUGO. • EARLY POEMS. • ENVY AND AVARICE. • ODES.–. • KING LOUIS XVII. • THE FEAST OF FREEDOM. • TO YE KINGS. • GENIUS. • THE GIRL OF OTAHEITE. • NERO'S INCENDIARY SONG. • REGRET. • THE MORNING OF LIFE. • BELOVED NAME. • THE PORTRAIT OF A CHILD. • • BALLADES.–. • THE GRANDMOTHER • THE GIANT IN GLEE. • THE CYMBALEER'S BRIDE. • BATTLE OF THE NORSEMEN AND THE GAELS. • MADELAINE. • THE FAY AND THE PERI. • THE PERI. • • LES ORIENTALES.—. • THE SCOURGE OF HEAVEN. • PIRATES' SONG. • THE TURKISH CAPTIVE. • MOONLIGHT ON THE BOSPHORUS. • THE VEIL. • THE SISTER • THE FAVORITE SULTANA. • THE PASHA AND THE DERVISH. • THE LOST BATTLE. • THE GREEK BOY. • ZARA, THE BATHER • EXPECTATION. • THE LOVER'S WISH. • THE SACKING OF THE CITY. • NOORMAHAL THE FAIR.{} • THE DJINNS. • THE OBDURATE BEAUTY. • DON RODRIGO. • CORNFLOWERS. • MAZEPPA. • THE DANUBE IN WRATH. • OLD OCEAN.
