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Los Miserables / Les Miserables
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Los Miserables / Les Miserables Paperback - 2016

by Hugo, Victor

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Penguin Clasicos, 2016. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Los Miserables / Les Miserables
  • Author Hugo, Victor
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 1520
  • Volumes 1
  • Language SPA
  • Publisher Penguin Clasicos
  • Date 2016
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G8491051120I3N00
  • ISBN 9788491051121 / 8491051120
  • Weight 2.25 lbs (1.02 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.5 x 4.9 x 2.4 in (19.05 x 12.45 x 6.10 cm)
  • Reading level 990
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Historical fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About this book

Considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century, Les Miserables (translated variously from French as The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, The Victims) is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo. The story follows the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean from 1815 through the 1832 Rebellion in Paris. Les Miserables' beloved story of redemption encourages compassion and hope in the face of adversity and injustice.   

The epic novel is divided in five volumes, each of which is divided into several books and subdivided into chapters, totaling 48 books and 365 chapters. Les Miserables, as a whole, is one the longest novels ever written with about 1,500 pages in unabridged English editions and 1,900 pages in French. Les Misérables is known to many through its numerous stage and screen adaptations, such as the stage musical of the same name, sometimes abbreviated "Les Mis".

First Edition Identification

Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Co. first published Les Miserables in Brussels in 1862. The Paris edition was published a few days later.

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About the author

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) naci en Besanon, Francia. Educado en escuelas privadas de Pars, empez a escribir siendo muy joven. Poeta, novelista y dramaturgo, llev a sus obras su espritu inconformista, que sazon con grandes dosis de sentimentalismo y ancdotas histricas. En sus obras, exponentes mximos del romanticismo literario, siempre volc su ideologa liberal, que le oblig a exiliarse de su pas en ms de una ocasin. Tras el volumen de poesa Odas y poesas diversas (1822), las novelas Han de Islandia (1823) y Bug-Jargal (1824), y los poemas de Odas y baladas (1826), escribi Cromwell (1827), extenso drama histrico, y Marion de Lorme (1829), obra teatral censurada por ser demasiado liberal. Pero no fue hasta 1830, con la publicacin y el estreno de Hernani, posteriormente adaptada por Verdi, cuando logr el reconocimiento del pblico y de la crtica. A Hernani siguieron la novela Notre-Dame de Pars (1831), la obra teatral El rey se divierte (1832, adaptada por Verdi en Rigoletto), Lucrecia Borgia (1833), Claude Gueux (1834), Ruy Blas (1838) y Les Burgraves (1843), tambin obra teatral, que le supusieron su ingreso en la Academia Francesa en 1841. Durante el Segundo Imperio emigr a Blgica, donde escribi la stira Napolen el pequeo (1852), el poema pico La leyenda de los siglos (1859-1883) y termin la que sera su obra ms extensa y famosa, Los miserables (1862). Regres a Francia en 1870, donde sigui publicando: El noventa y tres (1874) y El arte de ser abuelo (1877). Muri en Pars, y sus restos fueron expuestos en el Arco de Triunfo y luego trasladados al Panten, donde fue sepultado junto a las mayores celebridades francesas.