Les Miserables (Movie Tie-In)

· Penguin
4.2
54 reviews
Ebook
1232
Pages

About this ebook

Now a major motion picure, adapted from the acclaimed Broadway musical, starring Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, and Sacha Baron Cohen

Victor Hugo’s tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society, Les Misérables is a novel on an epic scale, moving inexorably from the eve of the battle of Waterloo to the July Revolution of 1830.

This striking edition features the widely celebrated and eminently readable translation by Norman Denny.

Ratings and reviews

4.2
54 reviews
Tron
November 22, 2017
To me this the definitive translation as it captures the essence of Hugo instead of the tedious and lackluster direct translation. The direct translation sounds you're ready a writer with a heavy accent but this flows beautifully. I love it!
1 person found this review helpful
Ozkar Beltran
April 14, 2013
Still one of the best, this classic story in a book, or in a movie, never fades in my mind and heart for if, there's courage, love, truth and justice goodness always prevails against all odds.
4 people found this review helpful
Lorrie J Parent
May 31, 2014
The poetry of the writing captured me. So many wonderfully written sections, over and over. Every chapter was like another beautiful bouquet of words. I will definitely read it again.
1 person found this review helpful

About the author

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was the most forceful, prolific and versatile of French nineteenth-century writers. He wrote Romantic costume dramas, many volumes of lyrical and satirical verse, political and other journalism, criticism and several novels, the best known of which are Les Misérables (1862) and the youthful Notre Dame de Paris (1831). A royalist and conservative as a young man, Hugo later became a committed social democrat and during the Second Empire of Napoleon III was exiled from France, living in the Channel Islands. He returned to Paris in 1870 and remained a great public figure until his death: his body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe before being buried in the Panthéon.

Norman Denny was educated at Radley College, and in Vienna and Paris. He has written a great many short stories under different names and several novels. Among his many translations are Prometheus: A Life of Balzac by Andre Maurois, My Life and Films by Jean Renoir, and The Future of Man by Teilhard de Chardin.

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