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    Les Misérables: The Classic Story of the Triumph of Grace and Redemption, Adapted for Today's Reader
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    Les Misérables: The Classic Story of the Triumph of Grace and Redemption, Adapted for Today's Reader
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    Les Misérables: The Classic Story of the Triumph of Grace and Redemption, Adapted for Today's Reader
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    Les Misérables: The Classic Story of the Triumph of Grace and Redemption, Adapted for Today's Reader

    By Victor Hugo

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    Here’s the epic story that spawned Hollywood films and Broadway musicals—in a condensed and updated version perfect for the twenty-first century reader seeking its redemptive message. Born of the unrest that pervaded France after the failure of its eighteenth-century revolution, Les Misérables follows the journey of Jean Valjean from depravity and corruption to grace and redemption. The eclectic cast of characters accompanying Valjean causes us to empathize with the condition of the human spirit—from Fantine, the desperate single mother, to the cold justice of Javert, to the passion of Cosette, to the revolutionary spirit in Marius. This retelling of Hugo’s epic 1862 novel retains the richness that is Les Mis, in approximately one-fifth of the original wording.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarbour Publishing
    Release dateMar 1, 2014
    ISBN9781630580230
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    Les Misérables: The Classic Story of the Triumph of Grace and Redemption, Adapted for Today's Reader
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    Victor Hugo

    The best-known of the French Romantic writers, Victor Hugo was a poet, novelist, dramatist, and political critic. Hugo was an avid supporter of French republicanism and advocate for social and political equality, themes that reflect most strongly in his works Les Misérables, Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), and Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (The Last Day of a Condemned Man). Hugo’s literary works were successful from the outset, earning him a pension from Louis XVIII and membership in the prestigious Académie française, and influencing the work of literary figures such as Albert Camus, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Elevated to the peerage by King Louis-Philippe, Hugo played an active role in French politics through the 1848 Revolution and into the Second and Third Republics. Hugo died in 1885, revered not only for his influence on French literature, but also for his role in shaping French democracy. He is buried in the Panthéon alongside Alexandre Dumas and Émile Zola.

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