Les miserables, volume I Fantine (English Edition)

by Victor Hugo

Overview

Romantic novel written by the French novelist Victor Hugo. The story takes place in France during a period of twenty years in the early nineteenth century during the Napoleonic Wars. The protagonist an ex-convict named Jean Valjean, struggles to redeem himself. The work reflects on the good and evil showing the history of France and its social context. Victor Hugo is inspired by Eugène François Vidocq, a delinquent who ended up being a policeman and creator of the French Sûreté Nationale, for the creation of the two main characters of the novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781543067101
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	02/12/2017
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.23(d)

About the Author

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was an internationally renowned novelist, playwright and poet known for his political activism and human rights advocacy. "If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away," the larger–than–life Victor Hugo once confessed. Indeed, this 19th–century French author's books – from the epic drama Les Misérables to the classic unrequited love story The Hunchback of Notre Dame – have spanned the ages, their themes of morality and redemption as applicable to our times as to his.

Date of Birth:

February 26, 1802

Date of Death:

May 22, 1885

Place of Birth:

Besançon, France

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

Pension Cordier, Paris, 1815-18