Les Misérables, with eBook

Product Description<br/><br/><br/>This is an Abridged Edition Victor Hugo began writing<br/>Les Misérables twenty years before its eventual publication in 1862.<br/>Les Misérables is primarily a great humanitarian work that encourages compassion and hope in the face of adversity and injustice. It is also a historical novel of great scope, and provides a detailed vision of nineteenth-century French politics and society. Hugo hoped<br/>Les Misérables would encourage a more progressive and democratic future. Hugo wrote<br/>Les Misérables with a literary and political revolution in mind.<br/>Les Misérables emphasizes the three major predicaments of the nineteenth century. Each of the three major characters in the novel symbolizes one of these predicaments: Jean Valjean represents the degradation of man in the proletariat, Fantine represents the subjection of women through hunger, and Cosette represents the atrophy of the child by darkness.<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/> Victor Hugo (18021885) was a poet, novelist, dramatist, and leader of the romantic movement in France. He also played an active part in political life. His literary works best known in English include Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Ninety-Three.