Victor Hugo

This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the disabled bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, as he struggles to stand up to his ableist guardian Claude Frollo, who also wants to commit genocide against Paris' Romani population. The novel has been described as a key text in French literature[1] and has been adapted for film over a dozen times, in addition to numerous television and stage adaptations, such as a 1923 silent film with Lon Chaney, a 1939 sound film with Charles Laughton, and a 1996 Disney animated film with Tom Hulce (both as Quasimodo). The novel sought to preserve values of French culture in a time period of great change, which resulted in the destruction of many French Gothic structures. The novel made Notre-Dame de Paris a national icon and served as a catalyst for renewed interest in the restoration of Gothic form.

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, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged Inspector 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.

Dans le Dernier Jour d'un condamné, un prisonnier réfléchit sur sa vie durant les heures qui précèdent son exécution... Au lecteur de l'accompagner dans ses souvenirs et dans ses peurs, de partager avec lui toutes les étapes qui mènent à la guillotine. Avec Claude Gueux, nous suivons l'itinéraire de la prison à l'échafaud d'un homme bon mais victime de l'injustice sociale. Deux romans bouleversants sur une pratique toujours actuelle dans le monde et contre laquelle Hugo se battit toute sa vie : la peine de mort.

Comme son titre l'indique, Quatre-vingt-treize est l'épopée de la Révolution française, racontée à travers trois personnages symboliques : un vieil aristocrate, le marquis de Lantenac, son neveu, Gauvain, un noble rattaché aux humbles, et un homme du peuple, Cimourdain, père adoptif de Gauvain. C'est donc les liens familiaux qui unissent ses personnages avant de les voir plonger dans la tourmente des événements, et lutter les uns contre les autres. Soit par convictions de rang et de classe, soit par raison, soit encore pour un idéal. Dans l'effervescence des actes sanguinaires, seul le peuple, consciemment ou inconsciemment, semble s'imposer en héros.

Hugo écrit Les Contemplations en 1856 alors qu'il vit un exil politique (thème qu'il abordera dans Les Châtiments). Il vit aussi depuis plusieurs années un exil intérieur qui hante Les Contemplations. Composées de deux parties distinctes, "Autrefois" et "Aujourd'hui", Les Contemplations est la première œuvre poétique maîtresse d'Hugo, plus de dix mille signes jetés à la face de la mer et du ciel sur l'île de Jersey. Marqué à tout jamais par la mort de sa fille Léopoldine, Hugo annonce dans sa préface qu'on ne peut réconcilier ces deux parties : "un abîme les sépare, le tombeau". Les plus beaux poèmes d'Hugo sur la force de la nature, la nostalgie de l'enfance et la fatalité de la mort se trouvent dans Les Contemplations. Ils sont indépassables. Dans cette œuvre en vers, Hugo joue d'une variété de rythme et de ton assez incroyable. Classique par moment, romantique, sage parfois, vénérant ses maîtres Gautier, Le Conte de L'Isle ou Banville, romantique déchaîné souvent comme dans "Réponse à un acte d'accusation" – poème que l'on peut considérer comme la profession de foi romantique d'Hugo – partout et tout le temps, Hugo réinvente l'acte de création poétique. Ce que dit "La bouche d'ombre", poème de huit cents vers, nous fait atteindre un degré supérieur dans l'ordre de la vision poétique. Le verbe d'Hugo se transforme en traité cosmogo-théologico-moral. "Dieu dictait, j'écrivais", constate logiquement Hugo à la fin du recueil. Aujourd'hui encore, après que Rimbaud, en lisant Les Contemplations, l'a considéré comme "le premier des voyants", que les surréalistes l'ont intronisé maître, Hugo continue d'impressionner par l'envergure de son génie protéiforme. --Denis Gombert

A rousing adventure story peopled with heartbreaking, unforgettable characters and a powerful allegory about the good and evil lying beneath the surfaces of human beauty, ugliness, and superior intellect.

В издание вошли «Собор Парижской Богоматери», «Человек, который смеется», «Гаврош». Однако ни фильмам, ни десяткам театральных постановок так и не удалось до конца передать масштаб и величие произведений Гюго. История всепобеждающей любви: прекрасная цыганка Эсмеральда покорила горбатого звонаря Квазимодо, священника и блестящего офицера... Рассказ о боли и милосердии: его лицо вызывало смех и жалость, но в сердце жила доброта... Повесть о любви к жизни: бесшабашный Гаврош считал жизнь игрой, но однажды...

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work. Les Miserables tells the story of ex-convict, Jean Valjean, and his valiant struggle to redeem his past. A potent social document of the poverty, ignorance, and brutality of man, Les Miserables is also a rousing adventure story, famous for such unrivaled scenes as the brilliant depiction of the Battle of Waterloo. Victor Hugo reached the peak of his powers in this far-reaching novel of nineteenth-century France. Here are combined the dramatic skills of Hugo the playwright, the rich imagination of Hugo the poet, and the compassion of Hugo the man. Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author’s personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research.

Le chef-d'oeuvre de Victor Hugo. En 1831, Victor Hugo réinvente le Moyen Âge et élève un monument littéraire aussi durable que l'œuvre de pierre qui l'a inspiré. Sous la silhouette noire et colossale de la cathédrale fourmille le Paris en haillons des truands de la Cour des Miracles. Image de grâce et de pureté surgie de ce cauchemar, la bohémienne Esméralda danse pour le capitaine Phoebus et ensorcelle le tendre et difforme Quasimodo, sonneur de cloches de son état. Pour elle, consumé d'amour, l'archidiacre magicien Claude Frollo court à la damnation. De cette épopée hallucinée, ces monstres et ces figures s'échappent pour franchir les siècles, archétypes de notre mythologie nationale, de notre art et de notre Histoire.

A brilliant new translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs. The Wretched (Les Misérables) is the basis for both the longest running musical on the West End and the highly-acclaimed recent film starring Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway. 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.

Unforgettable characters, a spellbinding plot, and a magnificent setting combine to create Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Enhanced by Tim Conrad's haunting illustrations, this classic tale is one of love, conflict, and spiritual truth in medieval Paris.

Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (first published under the French title L'Homme qui Rit in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale -- not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for. It starts on the night of January 29, 1690, a ten-year-old boy abandoned -- the stern men who've kept him since infancy have wearied of him. The boy wanders, barefoot and starving, through a snowstorm to reach a gibbet bearing the corpse of a hanged criminal. Beneath the gibbet is a ragged woman, frozen to death. The boy is about to move onward when he hears a sound within the woman's garments: He discovers an infant girl, barely alive, clutching the woman's breast. A single drop of frozen milk, resembling a pearl, is on the woman's lifeless breast...

Epski roman o iskupljenju, požrtvovanosti, ljubavi i patnji... Jadnici pripovedaju priču o Žanu Valžanu, koji je proveo devetnaest jezivih godina u zatvoru jer je ukrao veknu hleba. Pošto je izbavljen zahvaljujući dobročinstvu, pruža mu se prilika da spozna sreću, ukoliko bude uspeo da pomogne kćerki mlade Fantine. Međutim, istrajni policijski inspektor Žaver ne dozvoljava Žanu da pobegne od prošlosti. Na listi bestselera otkako je objavljen, roman Jadnici vešto prepliće lične sudbine sa turbulentnom istorijskom epohom u jedinsvenu, raskošnu i maštovitu dramatičnu priču o životnim nedaćama.

Les Miserables is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. First published in France in 1862, it is Victor Hugo's greatest achievement--the ultimate tale of redemption. Former prisoner Jean Valjean struggles to live virtuously after an unexpected act of forgiveness by a kindly bishop changes his life. His righteous actions change people's lives in surprising ways and culminate in romance between two young people. Now available as part of the Word Cloud Classics series, Les Miserables is a must-have addition to the libraries of all classic literature lovers.

Reproduction of the Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Excerpt from Les Miserables, Vol. 3 of 3 Certainly it is neither an attractive nor an easy task to seek in the lowest depths of social order, where the earth leaves off and mud begins, to grope in these vague densities, to pursue, seize, and throw quivering on the pavement that abject idiom which drips with filth when thus brought to light, that pustul ous vocabulary of which each word 'seems an unclean ring of a monster of the mud and darkness. Nothing is more mournful than thus to contemplate, by the light of thought, the frightful vermin swarm of slang in its nudity. It seems, in fact, as if you have just drawn from its sewer a sort of horrible beast made for the night, and you fancy you see a frightful, living, and brist ling polype, which shivers, moves, is agitated, demands the shadow again, menaces, and looks. One word resembles a claw, another a lustreless and bleeding eye, and some phrases seem to snap like the pincers of a crab. All this lives with the hideous Vitality of things which are organized in disorganization. N ow, let us ask, when did horror begin to exclude study? Or the malady drive away the physician Can we imagine a naturalist who would refuse to examine a Viper, a bat, a scorpion, a scolo pendra, or a tarantula, and throw them into the darkness, say ing, Pie, how ugly they are! The thinker who turned away from slang would resemble a surgeon who turned away from an ulcer or a wart. He would be a philologist hesitating to examine a fact of language, a philosopher hesitating to scruti nize a fact of humanity. For we must tell all those ignorant of the fact, that Slang is at once a literary phenomenon and a social result. What is Slang, properly so called 2' it is the lan guage of misery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Transcurridos un total de casi veinte años de condena que han sido sumados (a causa de sus intentos de fuga) a su condena original (sentenciado por el robo de un trozo de pan), Jean Valjean recobra su libertad con el propósito de vivir tranquilo. No obstante, tan pronto empieza a recorrer el mundo, comprueba que no será tarea sencilla. Las condiciones a las que se ve sometido le empujan hacia la reincidencia. Cuando se hospeda en casa del humilde obispo Myriel, finalmente cae en la tentación, sin embargo, el bondadoso religioso le ofrece una segunda oportunidad por tal de reclutarlo para la causa del bien. A partir de ahí Valjean iniciará una nueva etapa que le transformará como ser humano en una época de tumultuosos eventos. La implacable persecución del policía Javert pondrá en peligro su libertad y le obligará a disimular su verdadera identidad y le embarcará en una huida constante que le llevará a esconderse tanto en conventos como en cloacas hasta que al final llegue a las barricadas del París revolucionario de 1832. Los miserables, una de las obras clásicas de la literatura universal que se ofrece aquí en una traducción moderna y fidedigna, sin omisiones ni censuras, ha sido llevada al cine en numerosas ocasiones y es la base del mundialmente conocido musical homónimo.

Jean Valjean ha cumplido una condena de casi veinte años por robar comida para su familia. Fuera de la cárcel, la sociedad le margina y no le queda más remedio que seguir robando. Un inesperado encuentro con el obispo Myriel le hará cambiar de actitud y redimirse. A pesar de ello y de adoptar una nueva identidad, la justicia, encarnada en el implacable policía Javert, le obliga a emprender una huida permanente que le llevará a esconderse en conventos y cloacas, y a pasar por los campos de batalla de Waterloo y por las barricadas del París revolucionario de 1832, siempre buscando para sí y para los demás una justicia que le es negada.

Meditato dall'autore fin dal 1845, I miserabili vide la luce solo nel 1862: diciassette anni impiegò infatti Hugo per scrivere e pubblicare quello che egli stesso riteneva il suo capolavoro, il punto culminante della sua già monumentale opera. Accolto freddamente dalla critica - con la sola, notevolissima eccezione di Rimbaud che ne parlò come di "un vero poema" -, il romanzo ottenne invece una strepitosa fortuna di pubblico: 3500 copie vendute in poche ore, collette popolari per acquistarlo, un vero e proprio movimento d'opinione che fece preoccupare seriamente il regime di Napoleone III, per non parlare delle innumerevoli traduzioni e riedizioni, versioni cinematografiche e teatrali, fumetti... Un successo vasto e durevole, dovuto alla straordinaria capacità di Hugo di sintetizzare la sua vocazione poetico-simbolica e quella realistico-sociale, dando così vita a un'opera in cui le vicende dei tanti, indimenticabili personaggi si intrecciano con la storia del popolo di Parigi e la rievocazione dei momenti cruciali della sua epopea, dalla battaglia di Waterloo ai moti insurrezionali del 1832.

Biblioteca de traductoresObras de grandes autores de la literatura de todos los tiempos en nuevas versiones realizadas por los mejores traductoresJean Valjean ha cumplido una condena de casi veinte años por robar comida para su familia. Fuera de la cárcel, la sociedad le margina y no le queda más remedio que seguir robando. Un inesperado encuentro con el obispo Myriel le hará cambiar de actitud y redimirse. Tras adoptar una nueva identidad, logra hacerse con una posición acomodada que le permite ayudar a los vecinos de Montreuil y a Cosette, la hija de Fantine, una mujer obligada a prostituirse para subsistir. Pero la justicia le sigue los pasos por haber reincidido tras salir de la cárcel. La implacable persecución del policía Javert, un hombre de estricta moral, le obliga a emprender una huida permanente que le llevará a esconderse en conventos y cloacas, y a pasar por los campos de batalla de Waterloo y por las barricadas del París revolucionario de 1832. Siempre buscando para sí y para los demás una justicia que le es negada.¿Los miserables¿ es una de las obras clásicas de la literatura universal. Fue escrita en cinco volúmenes, en 1862, por Victor Hugo, uno de los autores más importantes de la historia de la literatura francesa. Es una obra fundamental, no sólo por sus valores literarios, sino también por su denuncia de la miseria, la pobreza y la explotación; su reflexión sobre el bien y el mal; y su defensa de la justicia, la ética y la solidaridad humana en momentos adversos. Ha sido llevada al cine en numerosas ocasiones y es la base del mundialmente conocido musical homónimo. La presente traducción de ¿Los miserables¿, a cargo de María Teresa Gallego, es la primera que se hace de toda la novela de Victor Hugo, y la más fidedigna.

لا تحتاج رائعة فيكتور هيجو "البؤساء" لتعريف، فهذه الرواية تحولت إلى السينما والمسرح والتلفزيون مرات، وترجمت إلى كل لغات العالم وطبعت ولا يزال يعاد طبعها، في ملايين النسخ. إنها رواية البؤساء والمكافحين والثوار، رواية مليئة بكل أنواع المشاعر الإنسانية: الخسارات والانتصارات، الظلم والعدل، الآمال والانكسارات، الحزن والفرح، المحبة والكره.

Jean Valjean ha cumplido una condena de casi veinte años por robar comida para su familia. Fuera de la cárcel, la sociedad le margina y no le queda más remedio que seguir robando. Un inesperado encuentro con el obispo Myriel le hará cambiar de actitud y redimirse. A pesar de ello y de adoptar una nueva identidad, la justicia, encarnada en el implacable policía Javert, le obliga a emprender una huida permanente que le llevará a esconderse en conventos y cloacas, y a pasar por los campos de batalla de Waterloo y por las barricadas del París revolucionario de 1832, siempre buscando para sí y para los demás una justicia que le es negada.

A new translation by Scot James Hogarth for the first unabridged English edition of the novel, which tells the story of a reculsive fisherman from the Channel Islands who must free a ship that has run aground in order to win the hand of the woman he loves, a shipowner's daughter.