Les Misérables Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Victor Hugo & Charles E. Wilbour
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
107

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo & Charles E. Wilbour Book Summary

Les Miserables is the great epic masterpiece of the mid-nineteenth century. Begun in 1845, the year Louis Philippe conferred a peerage and a lifetime seat in the Senate upon Victor Hugo, it was completed when the author was living in exile in the Channel Islands. Les Miserables is a product as well as a document of the political, social, and religious upheaval that followed the Napoleonic Wars and Europe's great democratic revolutions. The story is centered on Jean Valjean, a peasant who enters the novel a hardened criminal after nineteen years spent in prison for stealing a loaf of bread for the starving children of his sister. The path of Valjean's last twenty-five years, leading from the French provinces to the battlefield of Waterloo and the ramparts of Paris during the Uprising of 1832, introduces us to secret societies of revolutionaries and the vast world of the French lower classes. Jean Valjean's flight from the police agent Javert--the prototype of over a hundred years of fictional detectives--culminates in one of the most famous scenes in all literature, the chase through the sewers of Paris. Les Miserables sold out its large first printing in twenty-four hours and has remained enormously popular. This edition is the classic English translation of Hugo's friend Charles Wilbour, which appeared the same year the novel was published in France.

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Book Name Les Misérables
Genre Classics
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 3.94 MB

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Les Miserables. One of my favorite books. Hugo is a great storyteller. A must read.

Brilliant. I have the hard bound of this particular version of the classic novel and I must say this is my most cherished book of all time. Historical and emotionally engaging. If you liked the musical, stage or filmed, or liked one of the many movies, I would suggest you spend some time with this book. This novel is so much deeper and entwined then any modern performance can actually capture. There are also historical recountings of events and places that will bring you right back in time, into this world. While I truly LOVE the musical, I love this book even more.

BRILLIANT!!!!!!. I've read this book twice now after seeing the 25th anniversary at the O2 for a Christmas present and the book is bloody brilliant!!! It's a hard read but if you know the story well then you can pick it up quick

Epic!. Put simply: This may be the greatest novel ever written. Amazing literary achievement. Well worth the time invested.

OKAY EDITION. Great book. I do not like words mssing, for example Bishop of D______. I want the whole words spelled out. I like my books with all the words spelled out. I would have bought this edition, but I am looking at an abriged edition as well as the the Signet Classic edition, since almost all the words were spelled out.

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Summary of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo & Charles E. Wilbour

The Les Misérables book written by Victor Hugo & Charles E. Wilbour was published on 12 September 1980, Friday in the Classics category. A total of 107 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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