Les miserables

NOW A SIX-PART MINISERIES ON MASTERPIECE ON PBS The only completely unabridged paperback edition of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece—a sweeping tale of love, loss, valor, and passion. Introducing one of the most famous characters in literature, Jean Valjean—the noble peasant imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread—Les Misérables ranks among the greatest novels of all time. In it, Victor Hugo takes readers deep into the Parisian underworld, immerses them in a battle between good and evil, and carries them to the barricades during the uprising of 1832 with a breathtaking realism that is unsurpassed in modern prose. Within his dramatic story are themes that capture the intellect and the emotions: crime and punishment, the relentless persecution of Valjean by Inspector Javert, the desperation of the prostitute Fantine, the amorality of the rogue Thénardier, and the universal desire to escape the prisons of our own minds. Les Misérables gave Victor Hugo a canvas upon which he portrayed his criticism of the French political and judicial systems, but the portrait that resulted is larger than life, epic in scope—an extravagant spectacle that dazzles the senses even as it touches the heart. Translated by Lee Fahnestock and Norman Macafee, based on the classic nineteenth-century Charles E. Wilbour translation Inlcudes an Introduction by Lee Fahnestock and an Afterword by Chris Bohjalian

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Dimensiones 6.9 in H | 4.3 in W | 2.2 in T | 1.3 lb WtNúmero de paginas 1488Publicación 01102013Empastado Mass Market

Sobre el autor

Victor Hugo Victor Hugo (1802–1885), novelist, poet, playwright, and French national icon, is best known for two of today’s most popular world classics: Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, as well as other works, including The Toilers of the Sea and The Man Who Laughs. Hugo was elected to the Académie Française in 1841. As a statesman, he was named a Peer of France in 1845. He served in France’s National Assemblies in the Second Republic formed after the 1848 revolution, and in 1851 went into self-imposed exile upon the ascendance of Napoleon III, who restored France’s government to authoritarian rule. Hugo returned to France in 1870, after the proclamation of the Third Republic. Lee Fahnestock Lee Fahnestock is a translator and writer who lives in New York and Massachusetts. She translated three volumes of the poetry of Francis Ponge: The Making of the Pré, Vegetation and The Nature of Things, with another forthcoming. She translated two French novels: Paul Fournel’s Little Girls Breathe the Same Air As We Do (Braziller) and Elvire Murail’s Stairway C. With Norman MacAfee, she translated the letters of Jean-Paul Sartre as well as Les Misérables. She has been active with organizations promoting literary translation. She is at work on an extended study of Victor Hugo’s Paris. The French Government made her a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2000.