Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
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Les Miserables

Author: Victor Hugo

Narrator: Christopher Cazenove

Abridged: 2 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/1987

Synopsis

Jean Valjean is one of society's victims. A poor but honest peasant, he is caught stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving family and is sent to prison. By the time of his eventual release, he has become a hardened criminal, but his friendship with the saintly Monseigneur Bienvenu gives him another chance at life. This new, respectable life is precarious, for Valjean is still sought by the law, in the person of the implacable Inspector Javert.

About Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France.

In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic output and only secondarily on his novels. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Legende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. In the English-speaking world, his best-known works are the novels Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. His other novels include The Last Days of a Condemned Man, Toilers of the Sea, and The Man Who Laughs.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on June 21, 2024

welcome to...sigh...LES MAYSERABLES. i'm going to read a chapter (or whatever the this-book equivalent of a chapter is — 100 pages? a normal size book? undue suffering?) of this a day until i'm done, a process which will begin in may but end way after that. i've been thinking about reading this book a......more

Goodreads review by Emily May on January 26, 2019

Les Misérables can be translated from the French into "The Miserable Ones", "The Wretched", "The Poor Ones", "The Wretched Poor" or "The Victims". So, as you will have concluded, this is not a happy book. In fact, it is the very opposite of fluffy happiness. It is a story about the lowest and darkest......more

Goodreads review by Steven on July 07, 2020

Simplemente maravilloso. He tardado más de tres meses en realizar esta reseña. Desde que finalicé la lectura en marzo, estoy escribiendo distintos borradores para intentar expresar todo lo que sentí leyendo esta obra maestra. El problema, es que en mi cabeza tengo tantos pensamientos y reflexiones......more

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on October 17, 2024

Javert: those who falter and those who fall must pay the price! Valjean: lol you can Les Mis me with that shit. The first year I worked at the bookstore I very excitedly dressed as Enjolras to work the Halloween night shift but nobody came so I just sat alone with all the empty chairs and empty tables......more

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