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Les Mis<\#233>rables Audio Book
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Les Misérables
Author:
Victor Hugo
Reader: David Case
A brilliant vision of men caught between justice and the law. Jean Valjean struggles to escape his past, but the uncompromising Inspector Javert, imprisoned by his principles, won't (and can't) let him. This classic novel is a sensitive and dramatic evocation of Hugo's memorable characters and their life-and-death struggles in 19th-century Paris. Includes bonus PDF e-book.
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Available Audio Book Editions:
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ABRIDGED |
Audio MP3-CD ( 2 ) |
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Publish Date: 11/03/2008
ISBN: 9781400159000
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| F9M900 |
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$32.99 |
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Synopsis:
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Trying to forget his past and live an honest life, escaped convict Jean Valjean risks his freedom to take care of a motherless young girl during a period of political unrest in Paris.
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Book Reviews:
| "Hugo's genius was for the creation of simple and recognisable myth. The huge success of 'Les Miserables' as a didactic work on behalf of the poor and oppressed is due to its poetic and myth-enlarged view of human nature....Hugo himself called this novel 'a religious work'; and it has indeed the necessary air of having been written by God in one of his more accessible and saleable moods." |
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Author Bio:
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Hugo's life spanned much of the 19th century: He was born in 1802 and died in 1885. He was educated in Paris, and had one wife, one mistress, and five children, including Adèle, whose madness was immortalized in the Truffaut film "The Story of Adèle H.". Hugo was deeply involved in politics; he was exiled from France in 1851 for his activities, and lived thereafter on the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. His vast oeuvre contains much greatness but also, perhaps because of its staggering volume, much that is mediocre and self-indulgent, and too immersed in Hugo's idea that life is a conflict between the light and the dark, with few shades of gray. A larger-than-life figure and in some ways a mad genius, Hugo was also a skillful artist. He wrote novels, plays, poems, and essays on virtually every issue, self-confidently commenting on literature, politics, social themes, and religion.
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