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Les Misérables

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Author(s):Victor Hugo
Illustrator(s):Mead Schaeffer
Publisher(s): Dodd, Mead & Co.
Year Published: circa 1925
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
European
Families
Fiction - novel
Historical Fiction – Civil War
Age Range: Ages 13-18: Young Adult
Pages: 585
OCLC: 2937948

Description

The novel takes place in France from 1815 - the end of the Napoleonic era - to the 1832 Paris uprising. According to Hugo, “The book which the reader has before him at this moment is, from one end to the other, in its entirety and details ... a progress from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsehood to truth, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from corruption to life; from bestiality to duty, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. The starting point: matter, destination: the soul. The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end.”

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Other Editions

1938
(The Heritage Press)

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