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After 19 years of unjust imprisonment, Jean Valjean changes his name and sets out to restart his life and become a respected member of society.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.

A reissuing of The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir, a collection of poetry by Richard Hugo.

Tolstoy is said to have called Les Miserables the greatest novel ever written, and it exerted a powerful influence on the creation of War and Peace. At one level a detective story in which the relentless Inspector Javert obsessively pursues the escaped convict Jean Valjean, culminating in a dramatic chase through the sewers of Paris, at another level Hugo's masterpiece is a drama of crime, punishment and rehabilitation set against a panoramic ...

In the dark world of medieval Paris, the deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral heroically fights to save the life of a beautiful Gypsy girl about to be unjustly executed. Told with simple vocabulary and set in large type, this adaptation of the classic tale is perfectly suited for young readers. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Four characteristic and hugely important dramas by one of the most famous and influential European writers of the last 200 years, translated into English for the first time, and in highly playable versions. Victor Hugo (1807-"1885) was a novelist, poet and dramatist, and the most important of the French Romantic writers. He wrote over 50 novels and plays, his novel "Les Miserables" was famously adapted as a musical.

This biography of the author of 13 celebrated novels is also Hugo's search for the writing life of a mother known to her children as a socially correct middle-class doctor's wife rather than as the ambitious novelist she was as well. 14 photos.

In Earth Works, award-winning columnist Nancy R. Hugo presents amonth-by-month, season-by-season exploration of the pleasures and pains of gardeningin the mid-Atlantic. Readers familiar with her columns in the RichmondTimes-Dispatch and Virginia Wildlife will welcome this collection of her mostpopular essays, written in the characteristic conversational style that has made hera regional favorite. Earth Works has a wealth ofhelpful hints and se...