Now a major musical film from Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech), starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, and also featuring Amanda Seyfreid, Helena Bonham-Carter and Sacha Baron-Cohen, Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is one of the great works of western literature.Now in a new translation from the French by Christine Donougher, Les Miserables is at once a thrilling narrative - part comedy, mystery, romance and tragedy - and a social document of France's turbulent revolutionary history.Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), 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 Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe). It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine (Anne Hathaway), driven to prostitution by poverty. Victor Hugo (1802-85) wrote volumes of criticism, Romantic costume dramas, satirical verse and political journalism but is best remembered for his novels, especially Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), also known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Miserables (1862) which was adapted into one of the most successful musicals of all time. 'All human life is here' Cameron Mackintosh, producer of the musical Les Miserables'One of the half-dozen greatest novels of the world' Upton Sinclair'A great writer - inventive, witty, sly, innovatory' A. S. Byatt, author of Possession
- ISBN:
- 9780140444308
- 9780140444308
- Category:
- Classic fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-09-1982
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 1232
- Dimensions (mm):
- 198x129x55mm
- Weight:
- 0.82kg
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