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    Les Misérables

    Written by Victor Hugo

    Narrated by Bill Homewood

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    Les Misérables is set in Paris after the French Revolution. In the sewers and backstreets we encounter ‘the wolf-like tread of crime’, and assassination for a few sous is all in a day’s work. We weep with the unlucky and heartbroken Fantine, and we exult with the heroic revolutionaries of the barricades; but above all we thrill to the steadfast courage and nobility of the soul of ex-convict Jean Valjean, always in danger from the relentless pursuit of the diabolical Inspector Javert. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateMay 15, 2015
    ISBN9781843798972
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    Victor Hugo

    The best-known of the French Romantic writers, Victor Hugo was a poet, novelist, dramatist, and political critic. Hugo was an avid supporter of French republicanism and advocate for social and political equality, themes that reflect most strongly in his works Les Misérables, Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), and Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (The Last Day of a Condemned Man). Hugo’s literary works were successful from the outset, earning him a pension from Louis XVIII and membership in the prestigious Académie française, and influencing the work of literary figures such as Albert Camus, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Elevated to the peerage by King Louis-Philippe, Hugo played an active role in French politics through the 1848 Revolution and into the Second and Third Republics. Hugo died in 1885, revered not only for his influence on French literature, but also for his role in shaping French democracy. He is buried in the Panthéon alongside Alexandre Dumas and Émile Zola.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent narration of a most sublime story. It's long but worth it.
    • 5/5
      Dedication and patience required to absorb this classic. Worth it! The intricacies of the plot and the details of the characters validate Hugo’s genius. Most spiritual novel I ever listened to. I will tackle reading it one day, but I add that the narrator enriched the writing and the telling.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Hugo is a good writer, but he babbels on beyond all reason. Just be course a person is going into a sewer, we do not need 20 pages on the history of sewers. And the translation i catastrophic. I choose the English version be course I do now speak French, and still there is long parts in original french without translation. And little word plays, that are not translated. It really ruined a lot for me ?
    • 5/5
      Well performed classic. The book itself does take a few unessessary detours though.

      2 people found this helpful