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020			_a9781857152395 (hbk.)
040			_aBLR _beng _erda
082	0	4	_223 _a823 HUG _b022994
100	1		_aHugo, Victor, _eauthor.
245			_aLes miserables / _cVictor Hugo; translated by Charles E. Wibour; introduction by Peter Washington.
264		1	_aLondon : _bEveryman's Library, _c1998
300			_axxxvii, 1432 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
490	1		_aEveryman's Library _v239.
520			_aOut of extreme poverty Jean Valjean steals a loaf of bread and then spends many years trying to escape his reputation as a criminal. In later years he rises socially and is a respectable member of society; but policeman Javert will not allow him to forget his past and is determined to expose him.
520			_a"Tolstoy is said to have called Les Miserables the greatest novel ever written, and it exerted a powerful influence on the creation of War and Peace. At one level a detective story in which the relentless Inspector Javert obsessively pursues the escaped convict Jean Valjean, culminating in a dramatic chase through the sewers of Paris, at another level Hugo's masterpiece is a drama of crime, punishment and rehabilitation set against a panoramic description of French society in the years after Napoleon's fall from power. But this book is also about the metaphysical struggle between good and evil in the soul of every man and every community. Coloured by Hugo's distinctive philosophy, it is a plea for social justice, political enlightenment and personal charity which continues to speak with the undiminished authority more than a century after its first appearance."--Provided by publisher
650		0	_aParis (France) _xSocial life and customs _y19th century _vFiction.
650		0	_aOrphans _vFiction.
651		0	_aFrance _zParis.
700			_aWibour, Charles E., _eeditor.
700			_aWashington, Peter.
830		0	_aEveryman's Library _v239
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