Les misérables /
The novel traces the life of Jean-Valjean, a 19th century Parisian peasant who steals a loaf of bread to feed his starving children, and thereby becomes criminalized as a convict. This story of how he struggles to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignora...
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| Language: | English French |
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New York :
The Modern Library,
1992
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| Edition: | 1992 Modern Library edition |
| Series: | Modern Library giants
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| Summary: | The novel traces the life of Jean-Valjean, a 19th century Parisian peasant who steals a loaf of bread to feed his starving children, and thereby becomes criminalized as a convict. This story of how he struggles to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, has become a powerful social document and the gospel of the poor and the oppressed |
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| Item Description: | Illustrated lining pages printed with publisher's device Issued in dust jacket Series statements from dust jacket "Biographical note copyright © 1992 by Random House, Inc."--Verso, title page "The principal text of this Modern Library edition was set in a digitized version of Janson, a typeface that dates from about 1690 and was cut by Nicholas Kis, a Hungarian working in Amsterdam. The original matrices have survived and are held by the Stempel foundry in Germany. Hermann Zapf redesigned some of the weights and sizes for Stempel, basing his revisions on the original design."--Colophon "This edition is the classic English translation of Hugo's friend Charles Wilbour, which appeared [in] the same year the novel was published in France."--Front flap of dust jacket |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 1,260 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0679600124 9780679600121 |