Les Miserables PLUS The Man Who Laughs, A romance Of English History

by Victor Hugo, Isabel Florence Hapgood

The complete novels of Les Miserables and The Man Who Laughs, A Romance of English History. Classic novels by Victor Hugo.

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First published April 27, 2011

About the author

After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).

This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad.

Reviews

[Arif Kusbandono · Rating 5 out of 5]

Style of paradoxical lines, if not means of inviting conflict into the minds of its avid reader, proves that battle itself is tireless among words thrown, ideas materialized or doubt questioned. Counter thought follows firm answer naturally. People then take sides, this time the people (conflicted readers) go with the wretched. The wretched was at a time convict, mother in another, daughter next, son later or simply a poor orphan who never caught an eye on its rag for passersby always looking through or away.

It gave you the chase from chains of the galley, the argue in court of law, the war at Waterloo, the revolt in front of Champs Elysees, but had yet given you the ultimate battle. The finale was the battle with conscience oneself must prove. Then it suggested nothing but one thing: God took side with the wretched, Jean Valjean, as live disappeared from his face, replaced by the presence of some thing else.