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An edition of Les Misérables (1800)

Les misérables

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In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert--Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.

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1231

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Poor, Fiction, Readers, Fiction, historical, France, fiction, Ex-convicts, History, Historical fiction, Manners and customs in fiction, French fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Ex-convicts in fiction, Orphans in fiction, Orphans, Literature and fiction (general), Javert, inspector (fictitious character), fiction, Classic Literature, Fiction, political, Social conditions, Social life and customs, Juvenile fiction, Franse fiksie, Leesboeke, Franse taal, French language, Fiction, historical, general, France in fiction, Open Library Staff Picks, Stuttering, freedom, redemption, prison, bread, barricade, Los, Miserables, Francia, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, Paris (france), fiction, Politics and government, Graphic novels, Comic books, strips, Cartoons and comics, Misérables (Hugo, Victor), Fiction, general, Valjean, jean (fictitious character), fiction, Police, Vida social y costumbres, Presos, Policía, Ficción, Huérfanos, July Revolution (France : 1830) fast (OCoLC)fst01353472, Literature, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Historical, Epic fiction, Manners and customs, Unterschicht, French language materials, French literature, Electronic books, Music, instruction and study, Javert (Fictitious character), Fiction, fantasy, epic, Suo xie, Chang pian xiao shuo, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Rescue work, fiction, Police, fiction, Romance literature, Ex-détenus, Romans, nouvelles, Mœurs et coutumes, Criminals, Translations into English, Prisoners

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Jean Valjean, Javert, Javier Peñalosa

Places

Toulon, (France), Paris (France), Toulon Prison, Francia, Paris (Francia), Fa guo

Times

19th century, 19de eeu, 1815, 1832, Siglo XIX, July Revolution, 1830, Jin dai

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1951, Gallimard
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Page 7
Part One. Fantine
I. An Upright Man
Page 19
II. The Outcast
Page 71
III. In the Year 1817
Page 119
IV. To Trust is Sometimes to Surrender
Page 144
V. Degradation
Page 155
VI. Javert
Page 191
VII. The Champmathieu Affair
Page 202
VIII. Counter-Stroke
Page 260
Part Two. Cosette
I. Waterloo
Page 279
II. The Ship Orion
Page 325
II. Fulfilment of a Promise
Page 338
IV. The Gorbeau Tenement
Page 385
V. Hunt in Darkness
Page 399
VI. Le Petit-Picpus
Page 425
VIII. Cemeteries Take What They Are Given
Page 451
Part Three. Marius
I. Paris in Microcosm
Page 495
II. A Grand Bourgeois
Page 512
III. Grandfather and Grandson
Page 522
IV. The ABC Society
Page 555
V. The Virtues of Misfortune
Page 584
VI. Conjunction of Two Stars
Page 603
VII. Patron-Minette
Page 619
VIII. The Noxious Poor
Page 627
Part Four. The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue Saint-Denis
I. A Few Pages of History
Page 705
II. Éponine
Page 739
III. The House in the Rue Plumet
Page 756
IV. Help from Below May Be Help from Above
Page 788
V. Of Which the End Does Not Resemble the Beginning
Page 797
VI. The Boy Gavroche
Page 812
VIII. Enchantment and Despair
Page 844
IX. Where Are They Going?
Page 876
X. 5 June 1832
Page 883
XI. The Straw in the Wind
Page 904
XII. Corinth
Page 915
XIII. Marius Enters the Darkness
Page 943
XIV. The Greatness of Despair
Page 953
XV. In the Rue de L'Homme-Armé
Page 970
Part Five. Jean Valjean
I. War Within Four Walls
Page 987
II. The Entrails of the Monster
Page 1061
III. Mire, But the Soul
Page 1076
IV. Javert in Disarray
Page 1104
V. Grandson and Grandfather
Page 1110
VI. The Sleepless Night
Page 1129
VII. The Bitter Cup
Page 1145
VIII. The Fading Light
Page 1162
IX. Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn
Page 1173
Appendix A. The Convent as an Abstract Idea (Part Two, Book VII)
Page 1202
Appendix B. Argot (Part Four, Book VII)
Page 1214

Edition Notes

"First published by the Folio Press 1976." Previously published by Penguin Books in two volumes 1980.

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Series
Penguin classics

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.H875 Mi 1982, PQ2286 Mi 1982, PQ2286

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Pagination
1231 p. ;
Number of pages
1231

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OL1285376M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0140444300
LCCN
92143753
OCLC/WorldCat
40692964
Library Thing
19485
Goodreads
33175

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