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Les Misérables
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  • Published: 6 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141392622
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 1456

Les Misérables

Formats & editions
Paperback
26 Nov 2015
EBook
6 Mar 2014
EBook
31 Oct 2000
Audiobook
23 Apr 2020
Paperback
8 Jan 2019
Paperback
29 Sept 1996
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A brilliant new translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs

Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty.
  • Published: 6 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141392622
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 1456
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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.
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Also by Victor Hugo

Penguin Readers Level 4: Les Misérables (ELT Graded Reader)
Les Miserables
Notre-Dame de Paris
Ninety-Three
Waterloo
The Toilers of the Sea
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