Authors: Victor Hugo, Lee Fahnestock (Translator), Norman MacAfee
ISBN-13: 9780451525260, ISBN-10: 0451525264
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: March 1987
Edition: Reissue
"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 master's works -- 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 ever applicable to our times.
Audiolibro dramatizado en español basado en la historia original de Víctor Hugo. Catalogada como la primera novela social de su época, Los miserables, es una de obras literarias las más famosas de todos los tiempos. Es la historia de Jean Valjean, un convicto que estuvo injustamente encarcelado por 19 años por haberse robado una rebanada de pan. Al ser liberado de su injusta condena, Valjean trata de escapar de su pasado, lleno de maldad y depravación, para vivir una vida digna y honesta. Sin embargo, esto se ve truncado al ser reconocido por el inspector Javert, quien lo persigue obsesionadamente para enviarlo de nuevo a prisión. Esta persecución consume la vida de ambos hombres, terminando en un inesperado desenlace. FonoLibro les presenta esta excelente dramatización de la obra maestra de Víctor Hugo, con un elenco completo, música original, y excelentes efectos de sonido, la cual le estremecerá, y le llegará al corazón. (Duración: 4 horas. 4 CDs)
As part of the "Bullseye Step into Classics" series, this book offers young readers a simplified version of the classic tale of the haunted and hunted man relentlessly pursued by the unforgiving police inspector. The opening scenes of the story, depicting the desperate poverty that drives Jean Valjean to steal a loaf of bread and, after his release from prison, to treat his benefactor dishonestly, are passed over quickly in narrative form and don't engage the reader on an emotional level. However, once Jean Valjean rescues Cosette from a terrible life and takes her as his daughter, the story becomes more and more compelling. This version will hold the interest of young readers and it is to be hoped that, when they are a few years older, they will search out the original masterpiece and become immersed in the drama of Jean Valjean, the hunted and Inspector Javert, the hunter. 1995, Random House, $3.99. Ages 9 to 12. Reviewer: Carolyn Mott Ford
Introduction | 7 | |
Part 1 | Fantine | |
I | An Upright Man | 19 |
II | The Outcast | 71 |
III | In the Year 1817 | 119 |
IV | To Trust is Sometimes to Surrender | 144 |
V | Degradation | 155 |
VI | Javert | 191 |
VII | The Champmathieu Affair | 202 |
VIII | Counter-Stroke | 260 |
Part 2 | Cosette | |
I | Waterloo | 279 |
II | The Ship Orion | 325 |
III | Fulfilment of a Promise | 338 |
IV | The Gorbeau Tenement | 385 |
V | Hunt in Darkness | 399 |
VI | Le Petit-Picpus | 425 |
VIII | Cemeteries Take What They are Given | 451 |
Part 3 | Marius | |
I | Paris in Microcosm | 495 |
II | A Grand Bourgeois | 512 |
III | Grandfather and Grandson | 522 |
IV | The ABC Society | 555 |
V | The Virtues of Misfortune | 584 |
VI | Conjunction of Two Stars | 603 |
VII | Patron-Minette | 619 |
VIII | The Noxious Poor | 627 |
Part 4 | The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue Saint-Denis | |
I | A Few Pages of History | 705 |
II | Eponine | 739 |
III | The House in the Rue Plumet | 756 |
IV | Help from Below May be Help from above | 788 |
V | Of Which the End Does Not Resemble the Beginning | 797 |
VI | The Boy Gavroche | 812 |
VIII | Enchantment and Despair | 844 |
IX | Where are They Going? | 876 |
X | 5 June 1832 | 883 |
XI | The Straw in the Wind | 904 |
XII | Corinth | 915 |
XIII | Marius Enters the Darkness | 943 |
XIV | The Greatness of Despair | 953 |
XV | In the Rue de L'Homme-Arme | 970 |
Part 5 | Jean Valjean | |
I | War within Four Walls | 987 |
II | The Entrails of the Monster | 1061 |
III | Mire, But the Soul | 1076 |
IV | Javert in Disarray | 1104 |
V | Grandson and Grandfather | 1110 |
VI | The Sleepless Night | 1129 |
VII | The Bitter Cup | 1145 |
VIII | The Fading Light | 1162 |
IX | Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn | 1173 |
Appendix A | The Convent as an Abstract Idea (Part Two, Book VII) | 1202 |
Appendix B | Argot (Part Four, Book VII) | 1214 |