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Les Miserables (Abridged Edition)

di Victor Hugo, Charles E. Wilbour (Traduttore), Charles E. Wilbour McNees (A cura di)

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Serie: Les Misérables

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Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

  • New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
  • Biographies of the authors
  • Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
  • Footnotes and endnotes
  • Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
  • Comments by other famous authors
  • Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations
  • Bibliographies for further reading
  • Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate
  • All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ??biographical, historical, and literaryâ??to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

One of the most widely read novels of all time, Les Misérables was the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugo's stunning career. Though he was considered the greatest French writer of his day, Hugo was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Napoleon III. While in exile he completed Les Misérables, an enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I.

This newly abridged edition of Les Misérables tells the story of the peasant Jean Valjeanâ??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 Misérables 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 Aw… (altro)

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  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
This is a long book, but worth the read. I was already a fan of the musical version, so I was familiar with the primary cast of characters, but this adds so much more to that story. (Warning: it is highly probable that if you know the musical, the songs will be stuck in your head the ENTIRE time you're reading.)

It's an engaging read, and for the most part it held my interest through the many pages. However, Victor Hugo likes to pause and take a chapter (or five) to provide in-depth back story and details. While informative, I'm not necessarily keen on taking a break to read fifty pages about the sewer systems of Paris when I'm eager to know the fate of characters.

I was a little bummed that the only two characters to get a happy ending were the two I found most dull. Not to say I didn't like Marius or Cosette, but compared with gems like Enjolras or Gavroche or Eponine or Javert... eh. But, hey, I guess the title of the book is enough of a head's up.

I would recommend it, and I imagine I'll feel compelled to read it again - which is always a good sign. ( )
  Allyoopsi | Jun 22, 2022 |
I started reading on my Kindle and ended up getting lost in all the historical narration. I was on the verge of giving up entirely when I thought to try the audiobook. It still took me borrowing it from the library 3 TIMES to get through all the chapters, listening to it at 1.5x speed, but in the end, it did the trick.

I admire Hugo and his love of language that leads him to say a thing 3 or 4 different ways, when one would have done sufficiently to explain it. Listening to the narration of his prose was a wonderful way to pass the time. Reading it might have just been the death of me, tho. The characters and the story were incredible, and at the end of it, I think that all the thoroughness served a purpose. If I was a Frenchwoman at the time the book came out, I might have reveled in reading about things that my grandparents or parents had told me of their firsthand experiences of France in their day.

In the end, Hugo's story of Jean Valjean, Javert, Marius and Cosette and all the rest is much more dramatic and satisfying than any musical or dramatized version I've seen. ( )
  Annrosenzweig | Oct 15, 2021 |
Loved this book! ( )
  Jinjer | Jul 19, 2021 |
"Dying is nothing; what's terrible is not to live."

I finished reading the complete, unabridged "Les Miserables" today. I consider it perhaps the greatest novel of all time. Over the course of almost a year, to journey with Jean Valjean, to defend Fantine, to pity Eponine, to celebrate with Marius and Cosette, and to finally empathize with Javert has been a privilege and a blessing. It's an experience I'll never forget. ( )
  bugaboo_4 | Jan 3, 2021 |
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Nome dell'autoreRuoloTipo di autoreOpera?Stato
Victor Hugoautore primariotutte le edizionicalcolato
Charles E. WilbourTraduttoreautore principaletutte le edizioniconfermato
McNees, Charles E. WilbourA cura diautore principaletutte le edizioniconfermato
James K. RobinsonIntroduzioneautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Porter, LaurenceA cura diautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato

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Classic Literature. Fiction. HTML:

Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesâ??biographical, historical, and literaryâ??to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

One of the most widely read novels of all time, Les Misérables was the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugo's stunning career. Though he was considered the greatest French writer of his day, Hugo was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Napoleon III. While in exile he completed Les Misérables, an enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I.

This newly abridged edition of Les Misérables tells the story of the peasant Jean Valjeanâ??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 Misérables 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 Aw

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