Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

Luc Lefort

Publié par Blackstone Audiobooks, le 22 août 2003

Résumé

Hugo describes early 19th-century France with a sweeping power that gives his novel epic stature.Set in the Parisian underworld and plotted like a detective story. Jean Valjean, originally an honest peasant, who has been imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread. A hardened criminal upon his release, he eventually reforms, becoming a successful industrialist and town mayor. Despite this, he is haunted by an impulsive former crime and is pursued relentlessly by the police inspector Javert. Victor Hugo Les Misérables Translated by Charles E. Wilbour Abridged, edited and with an introduction by Paul Bénichou Published simultaneously in nine languages in 1862, Les Misérables is a vast tapestry set against the chaos of post-Napoleonic France. A cast of hundreds is woven into the epic story of the ex-convict Jean Valjean and his valiant struggle to redeem himself. A potent social document of the poverty, ignorance, and brutality of man, Les Misérables is also a rousing adventure and a passionate parable of love. Here, Victor Hugo displays his skills as a dramatist and poet, and shows his deeply felt compassion for all mankind. Pocket Books' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This edition of Les Misérables contains the original introduction by Hugo scholar and Harvard professor Paul Bénichou, as well as his accomplished abridgment.