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Les Miserables

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099529965

  • Length: 1376  Pages

  • Dimensions: 216mm x 58mm x 135mm

  • Weight: 1060g

  • RRP: £10.99

Les Miserables

  • Victor Hugo

  • Adam Thirlwell (Introducer)

  • Julie Rose (Translator)

Read the masterful story of romance and revolution behind the hit BBC TV series.

Les Misérables is a novel peopled by colourful characters from the nineteenth-century Parisian underworld; the street children, the prostitutes and the criminals. In telling the story of escaped convict Jean Valjean, and his efforts to reform his ways and care for the little orphan girl he rescues from a life of cruelty, Victor Hugo drew attention to the plight of the poor and oppressed.

Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Misérables is one of the greatest stories ever told.

NOW A MAJOR BBC TV ADAPTATION STARRING DOMINIC WEST, OLIVIA COLEMAN AND DAVID OYELOWO

'There are plenty of translations of this extensive, exuberant novel that cut out anything superfluous. But God is in the detail…This is the one to read’ Jeanette Winterson

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099529965

  • Length: 1376  Pages

  • Dimensions: 216mm x 58mm x 135mm

  • Weight: 1060g

  • RRP: £10.99

Reviews

  • There are plenty of translations of this extensive, exuberant novel that cut out anything superfluous. But God is in the detail, and Julie Rose has returned all the detail, making a language that is rich and gorgeous. This is the one to read... and if you are flying, just carry it under your arm as you board, or better still, rebook your holiday and go by train, slowly, page by page...

    Jeanette Winterson, The Times

  • This new translation...marvelously removes the yellowed varnish from Hugo's prose and gives us the racy, breathless, and passionate intelligence of the original

    Adam Gopnik

  • One of the finest French Romantic writers

    Guardian

  • I sobbed and wailed and thought (books) were the greatest things

    Susan Sontag

  • Les Miserables by Victor Hugo changed my life. The first time I read the book was when I was less than eight years old. I could only understand the part about little Cosette, but that chapter really got me

    Xinran, Financial Times

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Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (1802-1885), novelist, poet, and dramatist, is one of the most important of French Romantic writers. Among his best-known works are The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1831) and Les Misérables(1862).

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