| Description |
xiv, 1260 pages ; 22 cm. |
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[The Modern library of the world's best books] |
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Modern library of the world's best books.
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| Note |
Translated from the French. |
| Contents |
Fantine. 1. An upright man -- 2. The fall -- 3. The year 1817 -- 4. To entrust is sometimes to abandon -- 5. The descent -- 6. Javert -- 7. The Champmathieu affair -- 8. Counter-stroke -- |
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Cosette. 1. Waterloo -- 2. The ship Orion -- 3. Fulfillment of the promise to the departed -- 4. The old Gorbeau house -- 5. A dark chase needs a silent hound -- 6. Petit Picpus -- 7. A parenthesis -- 8. Cemeteries take what is given them -- |
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Marius. 1. Paris atomised -- 2. The grand Bourgeois -- 3. The grandfather and the grandson -- 4. The friends of the A B C -- 5. The excellence of misfortune -- 6. The conjunction of two starts -- 7. Patron-minette -- 8. The noxious poor -- |
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St. Denis. 1. A few pages of history -- 2. Eponine -- 3. The house in the Rue Plumet -- 4. Aid from below may be aid from above -- 5. The end of which is unlike the beginning -- 6. Little Gavroche -- 7. Argot -- 8. Enchantments and desolation -- 9. Where are they going -- 10. June 5th, 1832 -- 11. The atom fraternises with the hurricane -- 12. Corinth -- 13. Marius enters the shadow -- 14. The grandeurs of despair -- 15. The Rue de l'Homme Arme -- |
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Jean Valjean. 1. War between four walls -- 2. The intestine of Leviathan -- 3. Mire, but soul -- 4. Javert off the track -- 5. The grandson and the grandfather -- 6. The white night -- 7. The last drop in the chalice -- 8. The twilight wane -- 9. Supreme shadow, supreme dawn. |
| Summary |
Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES 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. |
| Subject |
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
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Ex-convicts -- Fiction.
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Orphans -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0679600124 |
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9780679600121 |
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