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Les Miserables (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Victor Hugo
Paperback : 896 pages
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This newly abridged edition of Les Mis�rables tells the story of the peasant Jean Valjean�unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert. As Valjean struggles to redeem his past, we are thrust into the teeming underworld of Paris with all its poverty, ignorance, and suffering. Just as cruel tyranny threatens to extinguish the last vestiges of hope, rebellion sweeps over the land like wildfire, igniting a vast struggle for the democratic ideal in France.
A monumental classic dedicated to the oppressed, the underdog, the laborer, the rebel, the orphan, and the misunderstood, Les Mis�rables is a rich, emotional novel that captures nothing less than the entirety of life in nineteenth-century France.
Laurence M. Porter has published twelve books, including Victor Hugo (1999), and a hundred articles and�chapters. He was a National Endowment for the Humanties Senior Fellow in 1998.�He teaches French at Michigan State University, where he won the Distinguished Faculty Award in 1995.
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