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Les Misérables

4.19 (750,255 ratings by Goodreads)

English

By (author): Victor Hugo

Translated by: Christine Donougher

A brilliant modern translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs.

This is the best translation of the novel available in English, as recommended by David Bellos in The Novel of the Century.

Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty.

'A magnificent achievement. It reads easily, sometimes racily, and Hugo's narrative power is never let down ... An almost flawless translation, which brings the full flavour of one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century to new readers in the twenty-first' - William Doyle, Times Literary Supplement

'The year's most interesting publication from Penguin Classics was [...] a new translation by Christine Donougher of the novel we all know as Les Misérables. You may think that 1,300 pages is a huge investment of time when the story is so familiar, but no adaptation can convey the addictive pleasure afforded by Victor Hugo's narrative voice: by turns chatty, crotchety, buoyant and savagely ironical, it's made to seem so contemporary and fresh in Donougher's rendering that the book has all the resonance of the most topical state-of-the-nation novel' - Telegraph

'Christine Donougher's seamless and very modern translation of Les Misérables has an astonishing effect in that it reminds readers that Hugo was going further than any Dickensian lament about social conditions [...]The Wretched touches the soul' - Herald Scotland

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Product Details
  • Weight: 930g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Nov 2015
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780241248744

About Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo was born in Besançon France in 1802. In 1822 he published his first collection of poetry and in the same year he married his childhood friend Adèle Foucher. In 1831 he published his most famous youthful novel Notre-Dame de Paris. A royalist and conservative as a young man Hugo later became a committed social democrat and was exiled from France as a result of his political activities. In 1862 he wrote his longest and greatest novel Les Misérables. After his death in 1885 his body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe before being buried in the Panthéon. Robert Tombs is Emeritus Professor of French History at Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. Most of his writing and teaching has been on French and European history and on Franco-British relations for which he was awarded the Palmes Académiques by the French government. Since his foray into English history with the publication of The English and Their History in 2014 he has become a frequent commentator on contemporary issues and is co-editor of the pro-Brexit academic website Briefings for Britain.

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