The Complete Book of Les Miserables
Author: Edward Behr
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1993-01-01
ISBN-10: 1559701560
ISBN-13: 9781559701563
Author: Edward Behr
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1993-01-01
ISBN-10: 1559701560
ISBN-13: 9781559701563
Author: Kathryn M. Grossman
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1994
ISBN-10: 080931889X
ISBN-13: 9780809318896
In this first book-length study of Les Misérables, Kathryn M. Grossman, with an authoritative command of Hugo’s work and Hugo criticism, situates the novelist’s masterpiece in relation both to his earlier novels—up to and including Notre-Dame de Paris— and to the poetry published during his exile under the Second Empire. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur’s theory of metaphor and on Thomas Weiskel’s analysis of the romantic sublime, Grossman illustrates how the novel’s motifs and structures correspond to a closely connected set of ethical, spiritual, political, and aesthetic concerns. The religious motifs in Les Misérables identify the sublime not just with utopian ideals (and the overthrow of Napoleon III’s grotesque Second Empire) but with artistic death and resurrection. Examining the ways the novel is largely concerned with the monstrous "brutalities of progress" called revolutions that must precede the advent of heaven on earth, Grossman traces that link to a mythos of sin and redemption and shows how the moral concerns of the plot also illuminate Hugo’s aesthetics. Les Misérables explores the tensions between heroes and scoundrels, chaos and order, law and lawlessness. Grossman painstakingly follows the novel’s ethical hierarchy from the grotesque (criminality) to the conventional (bourgeois complacency) and the sublime (sainthood), demonstrating how that hierarchy corresponds to two other hierarchies: the literary and the political.
Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 626
Release: 1862
ISBN-10: STANFORD:36105004489527
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Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Total Pages: 256
Release:
ISBN-10: 9781418556174
ISBN-13: 1418556173
Author: Víctor Hugo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1887
ISBN-10: NYPL:33433075830327
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Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1893
ISBN-10: CORNELL:31924019520620
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Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1893
ISBN-10: UOM:39015066232813
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Author: Bob Welch
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014-10-14
ISBN-10: 9781400206674
ISBN-13: 1400206677
Gold Medallion Award-winner Bob Welch crafts 52 nuggets of Bible-based wisdom from one of the most popular novels, musicals, and films of all time: Les Misérables. In 52 Little Lessons from Les Misérables, Bob Welch walks readers through Hugo’s masterpiece, extracting dozens of uniquely spiritual reflections from this enduring portrait of poverty, social injustice, mercy, and redemption. Welch reminds us that Jean Valjean’s life provides the truest example of why real love is found in the grittiest places, and that hearts are made whole beneath the crush of mercy. Most important, though, Welch keeps returning to the intersections of faith and reality throughout Hugo’s writing—those places where mercy becomes an inroad to the heart, and where love is only truly received when it is given without condition. Discover again why life’s purpose is found not in attending to personal needs and desires, but in responding to the hearts of others.
Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 1170
Release: 2017-02-16
ISBN-10: 9781473350250
ISBN-13: 1473350255
This is Victor Hugo's 1862 French historical novel, "Les Misérables". Considered to be one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, it chronicles the lives of several characters, focusing on ex-convict Jean Valjean's struggle for redemption. It is a profound examination of French history, the nature of law and justice, contemporary urban life, politics, moral philosophy, religion, and the types of romantic and familial love. A veritable masterpiece, "Les Misérables" constitutes a must-read for all lovers of literature. Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885) was a French novelist, dramatist, and poet belonging to the Romantic movement. He is widely hailed as one of the most accomplished and well-known French writers, originally achieving renown for his poetical endeavours-the most notable of which are the volumes "Les Contemplations" and "La Légende des siècles". Outside of his native country, Hugo's best-known works are his novels: "Les Misérables" (1862) and "Notre-Dame de Paris" (1831), commonly known as "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame". Aside from his literary achievements, he also produced over 4,000 beautiful drawings and was a prominent campaigner for social and political issues, including abolishing capital punishment.
Author: Victor Marie Hugo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 582
Release: 1879
ISBN-10: OXFORD:600056314
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