About this title: In Les Miserables, Victor Hugo offers an unforgettable description of the Parisian underworld and the French Revolution. This Signet Classic edition is the only completely unabridged mass market paperback edition available today.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780451521576ISBN:0451521579
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1987-03-03
ISBN-13:9780451521576ISBN:0451521579
Description: Good. An average used paperback with wear, corner bumps, small creases, light stains, etc. No names, no marks, no stickers. Pages are somewhat yellowed with age. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780451521576ISBN:0451521579
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. G to VG. Some cover wear. Stamped in front cover. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780451521576ISBN:0451521579
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Some cover and edgewear. Pages unmarked, bright and tight. No spine creasing. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Complete and unabridged. 1463 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1987-03-03
ISBN-13:9780451521576ISBN:0451521579
Description: Fair. Cover shows some wear with some bends and creases Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780451521576ISBN:0451521579
Description: Very Good. Signet Classics, 1987. Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. An extremely slight crease on top uppermost edge of cover on right side. Otherwise in new condition. read more
Description: Very Good. 0451521579 Very Good Signet Classics, 1987. Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. An extremely slight crease on top uppermost edge of cover on right side. Otherwise in new condition. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780451521576ISBN:0451521579
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Book is in excellent condition--some very minor wear/tear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780453005791ISBN:0453005799
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. This book has a very good dust jacket and the pages has aged in color. This book is in very good condition. The cover may have minor to medium wear, tear, dents, scratches. and creases. The inside pages are in great shape, may have minor to medium dog eared corners, and may contain a name inside. Shop with confidence. We guarantee the condition of every product as it's described on our listings. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780140622911ISBN:0140622918
Description: Fair. Paperback, a good reading copy. Cover image is a stock image and may vary. Your book will be securely packed and promptly dispatched from our UK warehouse. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New American Library
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780453005791ISBN:0453005799
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Fiction This copy is tight and clean...pages are yellowed with age...beautifully illustrated with 16 pages of photos from the broadway production. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Date Published: 1987-08-01
ISBN-13:9780453005791ISBN:0453005799
Description: Good. 1987 hardcover with dust jacket, no marks noted in text, small stains along outside edge, All of our products are cleaned with an disinfectant for your protection before shipping. read more
"This is one of my all-time favorite books. I love the richness of the story, the grandness and generosity of the sentiments, and the deep human insight. I find this old translation to be just lovely. I can open it to many a page and just read, like poetry, for the beauty of the language. But it is most worthwhile for the depth of humanity that Hugo shows. It's a crime to miss this book - you are among the miserable of the earth in a very different sense if you don't take the time to read it.
Another wonderful element is the sense of history that you get from it. The Napoleonic wars still inspired passion. It's great to see the battle of Waterloo recounted from the French side. There a forty or fifty page chapter that is worth reading for the history alone - all triggered as an aside to explain why Valjean was convicted a second time despite his good works, because, in court, he referred in passing to Napoleon as "the Emperor." It brings history alive in a way that history books alone do not."
"While I am still only part way through the 1,463 pages of this magnificent novel, I would recommend it heartily. The book is much less difficult to read than I had expected and it is full of wonderful characterizations along with a plot that keeps one interested. I have recently purchased the CDs of Les Miserables, the musical,
and the book fills out the details of the plot very nicely. A wonderful read!"
"This is my all-time favorite classic; I've read it at least twice and will probably read it again (when I have a spare minute!). What I love about this book is the contrast between the justice of Javert and the mercy of Jean Valjean. Javert is determined to do everything right and satisfy the demands of the law. Jean Valjean finds himself on the opposite end of the law, and yet he is in a better position because he is determined to share the mercy given him to those he meets. Javert ends up committing suicide, unable to bear the burden of his own self-righteousness. Jean Valjean is welcomed to his Maker after a difficult but rewarding life. I find myself being Javert more often than not, but my aim is to be a Jean Valjean!"
"I'm tempted to say, "Somewhere in the 1,300 pages of this book is a 400 page novel that is absolutely fantastic," but that isn't quite fair. Yes, Hugo goes on long rants that seem to have nothing to do with the plot at hand. Is it superfluous? Perhaps. But so is the cream in your coffee.
Victor Hugo could condense the first 50 pages into the sentence, "The Bishop of Digne was a saint." But rather than to do that, he leads us through a series of stories that exemplify this point. He could have told us simply that a certain villain fought at Waterloo and stole from the dead. Instead, he precedes this with a colorful, deep description of the battle and its driving forces. Such details, while an epicurean example of nineteenth-century long-windedness, add a lavish richness and palatability to the central plot.
That said, the story is very compelling, character development is rich and convincing, and the story carries with it an enlightening first-hand view of the French Revolution."
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