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Les Misérables: Volume 1 of 2
Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark
494 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2002
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Victor Hugo
6,502 books13.2k followersAfter Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1831) and
Les Misérables
(1862).
This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad.
This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad.
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June 25, 2019
Victor Hugo, I loved your book and it bored me. If only you didn't digress too much. Why do I need to know so much about Waterloo and how Napoleon was defeated when your book is about the small people not the heroic ones? Why do you tell so much about the history of the covenant? I am in love with Jean Valjean, with every character he meets, with everything he does, with his background. Only for my favourite hero, Jean Valjean you get a complete 5 stars. But since this book is concerned with other descriptions that have given me tremendous pain while reading, the book gets 4 stars. Cant wait to see how volume two goes.
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