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Les miserables ebook download
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" magnificent story… marvelously captured in this new unabridged translation by Julie Rose." — The Denver Post This is the to read… and if you are flying, just carry it under your arm as you board, or better still, rebook your holiday and go by train, slowly, page by page." —Jeanette Winterson, The Times (London) He writes on various subjects for The New Yorker and has written introductions to works by Maupassant, Balzac, Proust, and Alain-Fournier. She is a recipient of the PEN medallion for translation and the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize.Īdam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon and Through the Children’s Gate, and editor of the Library of America anthology Americans in Paris. Julie Rose’s acclaimed translations include Alexandre Dumas’s The Knight of Maison-Rouge and Racine’s Phèdre, as well as works by Paul Virilio, Jacques Rancière, Chantal Thomas, and many others. Hugo returned to France in 1870 after the proclamation of the Third Republic. He served in France’s National Assemblies in the Second Republic formed after the 1848 revolution, and in 1851 went into self-imposed exile upon the ascendance of Napoleon III, who restored France’s government to authoritarian rule. As a statesman, he was named a Peer of France in 1845.

les miserables ebook download

Hugo was elected to the Académie Française in 1841. Victor Hugo (1802-85), novelist, poet, playwright, and French national icon, is best known for two of today’s most popular world classics: Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, as well as other works, including The Toilers of the Sea and The Man Who Laughs.












Les miserables ebook download