Les misérables1864 This expansive French tale of injustice and social unrest is widely considered to be writer Victor Hugo's masterpiece. While the 1862 novel features a large array of characters, it focuses primarily on the noble Jean Valjean, a man unfairly imprisoned for a minor crime of compassion. After serving a long sentence, Valjean struggles to find his place in a seemingly unforgiving society. As his fortunes change, France itself undergoes a major transformation. Hugo's sweepingly emotive story has been adapted many times, to considerable fanfare. |
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Página 464 - And they placed them on the heavenly tablets, each had thirteen weeks; from one to another (passed) their memorial, from the first to the second, and from the second to the third, and from the third to the fourth.
Página 482 - A character such as this is deserving of study, and his life ought to be written. Mrs. Oliphant has undertaken the work and has produced a biography of considerable merit The author fully understands her hero, and sets forth the incidents of his career with the skill of a practised hand. The book is a good book on a most interesting theme.
Página 482 - MISERABLES. By VICTOR HUGO. AUTHORISED COPYRIGHT ENGLISH TRANSLATION. "The merits of *Les Miserables' do not merely consist in the conception of it as a whole; it abounds, page after page, with details of unequalled beauty.
Página 35 - Just as the brother and sister were rising from the table there was a knock at the door. " Come in,
Página 33 - There was almost a divinity in this unconsciously august man. Jean Valjean was standing in the shadow with his crow-bar in his hand, motionless and terrified by this luminous old man. He had never seen anything like this before, and such confidence horrified him. The moral world has no greater spectacle than this, — a troubled, restless conscience, which is on the point of committing a bad action, contemplating the sleep of a just man.
Página 485 - MESSRS. HURST AND BLACKETT'S NEW WORKS— Continued. ENGLISH WOMEN OF LETTERS. By JULIA KAVANAGH, Author of " Nathalie," "Adele," " French Women of Letters," "Queen Mab,
Página 482 - LIFE OF EDWARD IRvING. The Life of Edward Irving, Minister of the National Scotch Church, London. Illustrated by his Journals and Correspondence. By Mrs. OLIPHANT.
Página 453 - He sank into a chair, and buried his face in his hands. After a while, he raised his head, and saw Jael Dence looking gravely at him. " Oh, speak your mind ," said he, bitterly. " You are like the world. You think only of yourself: that's all I have to say.