Les misérables
Format:
Book
Title:
Les misérables
Uniform Title:
Misérables. English
Author:
ISBN:
9780679643333
9780812974263
9780394604893
9780679600121
9780451419439
Edition:
Modern Library edition
Publication:
New York : Modern Library, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., [2008]
Physical Description:
xxxiv, 1330 pages ; 25 cm.
Series title(s):
General Note:
Series statement from dust jacket
"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."--Colophon
Contents:
Introduction / Adam Gopnik -- Les Miserables -- Pt. 1. Fantine -- Pt. 2. Cosette -- Pt. 3. Marius -- Pt. 4. The Idyll of the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue Saint-Denis -- Pt. 5. Jean Valjean.
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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.8 105.0 12789.