Les Misérables -- Victor Hugo

<b>Few novels ever swept across the world with such overpowering impact as <i>Les Mis rables. </i>Within 24 hours, the first Paris edition was sold out. In other great cities of the world it was devoured with equal relish.</b> <p/>Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, <i>Les Mis rables </i>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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Victor Hugo<br><b>Publisher:</b> Fawcett Books<br><b>Published:</b> 12/12/1982<br><b>Pages:</b> 416<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.45lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 6.86h x 4.16w x 1.13d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780449300022<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Victor Hugo</b> (1802-85), novelist, poet, playwright, and French national icon, is best known for two of today's most popular world classics: <i>Les Misérables </i>and <i>The Hunchback of Notre-Dame</i>, as well as other works, including <i>The Toilers of the Sea</i> and <i>The Man Who Laughs</i>. Hugo was elected to the Académie Française in 1841. As a statesman, he was named a Peer of France in 1845. He served in France's National Assemblies in the Second Republic formed after the 1848 revolution, and in 1851 went into self-imposed exile upon the ascendance of Napoleon III, who restore