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Les Miserables Mass market paperbound - 1987

by Victor Hugo; Lee Fahnestock (Translator); Norman MacAfee (Translator)


About this book

Considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century, Les Miserables (translated variously from French as The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, The Victims) is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo. The story follows the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean from 1815 through the 1832 Rebellion in Paris. Les Miserables' beloved story of redemption encourages compassion and hope in the face of adversity and injustice.   

The epic novel is divided in five volumes, each of which is divided into several books and subdivided into chapters, totaling 48 books and 365 chapters. Les Miserables, as a whole, is one the longest novels ever written with about 1,500 pages in unabridged English editions and 1,900 pages in French. Les Misérables is known to many through its numerous stage and screen adaptations, such as the stage musical of the same name, sometimes abbreviated "Les Mis".

Summary

Victor Hugo's towering novel of Jean Valjean, his unjust imprisonment, and his lifelong flight from a relentless police officer.

From the publisher

Victor Hugo's towering novel of Jean Valjean, his unjust imprisonment, and his lifelong flight from a relentless police officer.

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First Edition Identification

Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Co. first published Les Miserables in Brussels in 1862. The Paris edition was published a few days later.

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  • Title Les Miserables
  • Author Victor Hugo; Lee Fahnestock (Translator); Norman MacAfee (Translator)
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Unabridged
  • Pages 1463
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet Book, New York
  • Date March 3, 1987
  • ISBN 9780451525260 / 0451525264
  • Weight 1.43 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.94 x 4.17 x 2.3 in (17.63 x 10.59 x 5.84 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 990
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Ex-convicts
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 86062313
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Born in 1802, the son of a high officer in Napoleon's army, Victor Hugo spent his childhood against a background of military life in Elba, Corsica, Naples, and Madrid. After the Napoleonic defeat, the Hugo family settled in straitened circumstances in Paris, where, at the age of fifteen, Victor Hugo commenced his literary career with a poem submitted to a contest sponsored by the Academie Francaise. Twenty-four years later, Hugo was elected to the Academie, having helped revolutionize French literature with his poems, plays, and novels. Entering politics, he won a seat in the National Assembly in 1848; but in 1851, he was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Louis Napoleon. In exile on the Isle of Guernsey, he became a symbol of French resistance to tyranny; upon his return to Paris after the Revolution of 1870, he was greeted as a national hero. He continued to serve in public life and to write with unabated vigor until his death in 1885. He was buried in the Pantheon with every honor the French nation could bestow.

Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee have translated two volumes of the letters of Jean-Paul Sartre, edited by Simone de Beauvoir: "Witness to My Life" and "Quiet Moments in a War." For their work together, they have received an NEA Translation fellowship and the American Literary Translators Association Award. Lee Fahnestock has translated fiction as well as four volumes of the poetry of Francis Ponge, including "The Making of the Pre "and "The Nature of Things." The French Government honored her with the Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres. Norman MacAfee's other books include "One Class: Selected Poems; The Gospel According to RFK: Why It Matters Now;" the opera "The Death of the Forest"; and translations of Pier Paolo Pasolini's poetry.

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