Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885.

Title:

Les misérables / Victor Hugo ; a new translation by Julie Rose ; introduction by Adam Gopnik ; notes by James Madden.

Edition:

Modern Library edition

Publisher, Date:

New York : Modern Library, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., [2008]

Description:

xxxiv, 1330 pages ; 25 cm.

Summary:

The novel traces the life of Jean-Valjean, a 19th century Parisian peasant who steals a loaf of bread to feed his starving children, and thereby becomes criminalized as a convict. This story of how he struggles to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, has become a powerful social document and the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.

Series:

The modern library of the world's best books

Modern library of the world's best books.

Subjects:

Ex-convicts -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Orphans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Paris (France) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

France -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Genre:

Epic fiction.

Historical fiction.

Other Author:

Gopnik, Adam, writer of introduction.

Rose, Julie, 1952- translator.

Madden, James, writer of supplementary textual content.

Other Title:

Misérables. English

Notes:

Series statement from dust jacket

"The principal text of this Modern Library edition was set in a digitized version of Janson, a typeface that dates from about 1690 and was cut by Nicholas Kis, a Hungarian working in Amsterdam."--Colophon

Includes "Notes": Pages 1195-1330

Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.8 105.0 12789.

Contents:

Introduction / Adam Gopnik -- Les Miserables -- Fantine -- Cosette -- Marius -- The Idyll of the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue Saint-Denis -- Jean Valjean.

Web Site:

Table of contents

LCCN:

2008009711

ISBN:

9780679643333

0679643338

9780812974263

0812974263

9780394604893

039460489X

9780679600121

0679600124

9780679600121

9780451419439

045141943X

9780394604893

Other Number:

7991031

System Availability:

13

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

13

Control Number:

991766

# Local items in:

9

# System items in:

9

Call Number:

FICTION Hugo