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Les Misérables
  • Imprint: BBC Books

  • Published: 27/12/2018

  • ISBN: 9781785944000

  • Length: 1328  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 56mm x 126mm

  • Weight: 874g

  • RRP: £8.99

Les Misérables

  • Victor Hugo

  • Andrew Davies (Foreword by)

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Where there is love, there is hope.

Accompanying a 6-part series on BBC One from the makers of War and Peace, and starring Dominic West, Lily Collins, David Oyelowo and Olivia Coleman, this edition of Les Misérables also has a foreword from screenwriter Andrew Davies (War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice).

Les Misérables is Victor Hugo's classic tale of injustice, heroism and love following the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. Those attempts are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society, this is a novel on an epic scale, moving from the Battle of Waterloo to the the June rebellion of 1832. With striking intensity and relevance to us today, it is testimony to the struggles of France's underclass.

  • Imprint: BBC Books

  • Published: 27/12/2018

  • ISBN: 9781785944000

  • Length: 1328  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 56mm x 126mm

  • Weight: 874g

  • RRP: £8.99


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About the Author

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo was born in Besançon, France in 1802. In 1822 he published his first collection of poetry and in the same year, he married his childhood friend, Adèle Foucher. In 1831 he published his most famous youthful novel, Notre-Dame de Paris. A royalist and conservative as a young man, Hugo later became a committed social democrat and was exiled from France as a result of his political activities. In 1862, he wrote his longest and greatest novel, Les Misérables. After his death in 1885, his body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe before being buried in the Panthéon.

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