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Les Misérables

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Author(s):Victor Hugo
Illustrator(s):Lynd Ward
Translator(s):Sir Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, third Baronet
Publisher(s): The Heritage Press
Easton Press
The Limited Editions Club
Year Published: 1938
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
European
Fiction - Novel
History - French
Age Range: Ages 13-18: Young Adult
Pages: 1466
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 849711731

Description

A man who cannot escape his past is pursued by an obsessed detective. Published in one, two, and five volume editions.

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Other Editions

Les Misérables (1925)

The novel takes place in France from 1815 - the end of the Napoleonic era - to the 1832 Paris uprising. According to Hugo, “The book which the reader has before him at this moment is, from one end to the other, in its entirety and details ... a progress from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsehood to truth, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from corruption to life; from bestiality to duty, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. The starting point: matter, destination: the soul. The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end.”

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co.
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