- Paperback
- Publisher: Samuel French Ltd (6 Mar 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0573018804
- ISBN-13: 978-0573018800
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.4 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,474,027 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Victor Hugo's passionate and epic tale of social injustice, class conflict, love and revolt in 19th-century France is brought to theatrical life in this adaptation. The play follows its many characters through a story spanning several years.
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Victor Hugo (1802-85), 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.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The picture of this book clearly shows 'Text Integral' in the top left hand corner. It is NOT. The book delivered has 'Extraits' in the top left hand corner and is just that: a series of extracts from Les Miserables with accompanying information. It may be useful for a school course but it is certainly not the book 'Les Miserables' and it is not suitable as a book to read. I would return it but would I get the correct book in return and is it worth the hassle? In my opinion this is mis-selling.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The two earlier, negative reviews refer to an abridged edition, but I bought this from amazon.fr and it's fine - a genuine "texte integral". Reviewing volumes 1 and 2 together, the whole is an astonishing creation, delicately weaving together the stories of Jean Valjean, Javert, Marius and les Thenardier and dealing with the true (for Hugo) source of misery: Society rather than Providence. Hugo is at his best when he gets on with the story. What I didn't like were his discursive essays - an analysis of the Battle of Waterloo and a long discussion of convent life (in Volume 1) and a history of the Paris sewers (in Volume 2) stick in my mind as not really saying much about "misery".
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I loved the book when I first read it about 15 years ago and was looking forward to finally reading it again. The copy I purchased got me really angry. It's been shortened beyond recognition, which is NOT mentioned in the title! At first I only noticed the brackets after nearly every paragraph, but then I realized that whole chapters are cut out, which are, of course, important to understanding the plot. Instead, there are pages and pages of analysis and understanding of the chapters, which I'm sure you can't when you haven't got the whole book (not that I've read any of this stuff)! and which are really quite irritating when you just want to read the blimmin book! It's put me off now, I'm so far into the first volume, I may have to wait another 15 years before I can read it again. Aargh!
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