Les Misérables
Author: Hugo, Victor
ISBN: 9780449911679
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 29 Sep 1996
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
b>Few novels ever swept across the world with such overpowering impact as i>Les Miserables. /i>Within 24 hours, the first Paris edition was sold out. In other great cities of the world it was devoured with equal relish./b>br>br>Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled withthe sweep and violence of human passions, i>Les Miserables /i>is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.
ISBN: 9780449911679
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 29 Sep 1996
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
b>Few novels ever swept across the world with such overpowering impact as i>Les Miserables. /i>Within 24 hours, the first Paris edition was sold out. In other great cities of the world it was devoured with equal relish./b>br>br>Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled withthe sweep and violence of human passions, i>Les Miserables /i>is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.
