Pack Los Miserables

by Leo Tolstoy, Nemesio Fernández Cuesta (Translator)

Los Miserables, la novela del excepcional Víctor Hugo, es una de las obras literarias más famosas de todos los tiempos. Aunque perteneciente a la corriente romántica, no obstante ha sido catalogada como la primera novela social de su época. Narra la historia de Jean Valjean, un convicto injustamente encarcelado durante casi 20 años por haber robado un pan para su familia. Tras ser liberado, Valjean trata de escapar de su pasado para vivir una vida digna y honesta, pero la sociedad lo margina y se ve obligado de nuevo a delinquir. Logra enriquecerse y adopta una nueva identidad, pero el implacable policía Javert lo obliga a emprender una huida permanente que lo conducirá a esconderse en un convento e incluso a participar en las barricadas del París revolucionario de 1832, siempre buscando para sí y para los demás una justicia que le es negada… Amor, miseria y justicia son los temas que vertebran esta obra maestra, que aquí presentamos en una cuidada edición ilustrada con más de 250 grabados.

1344 pages, Paperback

Published August 11, 2023

About the author

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.