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Set in a richly rendered 15th century Paris, Victor Hugos powerful drama focuses on a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda, the two men (including an obsessed and manipulative priest) who love her, and the pitiful hunchback Quasimodo who tries to save her. With this simplified yet spellbinding version, kids can enjoy all the excitement of Hugos masterful story.

Para Victor Hugo el exilio no es una cosa material, es una cuestión moral: "Todos los rincones de la tierra resultan lo mismo". Cuestión moral, no cuestión de derecho, la aplicación injusta del poder sobre otro que no tiene como oponerse a la sentencia.A traves de Victor Hugo quienes nos hablan son todos aquellos que han ganado la cali-dad de proscritos, y con ella, han perdido lo que consideraban suyo, forzados a dejar-lo todo y a buscar fortuna en otras tierras, o simplemente a sobrevivir bajo el dominio tenaz de la melancolia.

Classic / American English (Available February 2008) Ugly and unwanted by the outside world, Quasimodo the hunchback lives under the protection of the priest in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. Then his quiet life is destroyed by the priests evil plans for a beautiful gypsy girl. The priest needs Quasimodos help. But the hunchback has other ideas.

"Shakespeare és la fertilitat, la força, l?exuberància, la mamella inflada, la copa escumosa, la bóta a punt de rebentar, la saba en excés, el torrent de lava, el remolí de gèrmens, la vasta pluja de

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Jean Valjean is free at last after nineteen years in prison. Cold and hungry, he is rejected by everyone he meets. But Jeans life is changed forever when he discovers love. He spends the rest of his life helping people, like himself, who have been victims of poverty and social injustice les miserables

Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion. Behind the central figures moves a pageant of picturesque characters, ranging from the cruel, superstitious king, Louis XI, to the underworld of beggars and petty criminals. These disreputable truands' night-time assault on the cathedral is one of the most spectacular set-pieces of Romantic literature. Hugo vividly depicts medieval Paris, where all life is dominated by the massive cathedral. His passionate enthusiasm for Gothic architecture is set within the context of an epic view of mankind's history, to which he attaches even more importance than to the novel's compelling story. Alban Krailsheimer's new translation is a fresh approach to this monumental classic by France's most celebrated Romantic.

Dans un cachot, un homme s'apprête à mourir. Pour tromper son intolérable attente. le condamné écrit : son vain espoir de la. grâce, son dernier voyage en fourgon, sa peur d'affronter la, foule. , mais aussi ses souvenirs de promenades autour de Paris. le sourire de sa petite fille Marie. Bientôt, le condamné sans nom et sans visage se révèle un être de chair et de sang, si proche. en somme, de chacun de nous. L'édition inclut les deux préfaces du Dernier Jour d'un condamné : " Une comédie à propos d'une tragédie " réponse de Victor Hugo à ses détracteurs, et la Préface de 1832, réquisitoire contre la peine capitale.

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Victor Hugos 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 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. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society, Les Miserables is a novel on an epic scale, moving inexorably from the eve of the battle of Waterloo to the July Revolution of 1830.

This book features many of the characters who are well-known: Valjean, the criminal trying to escape his reputation; Javert, the police agent trailing him; the unfortunate Fantine and her daughter, Cosette; the rascally Thenardier; and above all the splendid street urchin, Gavroche. Among the unforgettable descriptions are those of the Paris sewers, the battle of Waterloo and the fighting at the barricades during the July Revolution. There are few more complete, or more vivid, pictures of France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. "Les Miserables" is at once a thrilling narrative and a social document embracing a wider field than any other novel of its time.

One of the great Romantic novels of all time. It tells the story of Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre-Dame cathedral and his devotion to the beautiful gypsy dancer, La Esmeralda. When the demented archdeacon Frollo sets out to abduct La Esmeralda, he uses Quasimodo to do the evil deed on his behalf. But the plan has unforeseen consequences and the innocent Esmeralda is charged with the murder of Phoebus, the man she was in love with. Quasimodo, now utterly devoted to esmeralda, determinesto protect her, not only from Frollo, but from the band of gypsies who have come to reclaim her. His transformation from her captor to her saviour leads to some of the most dramatic, unforgettable scenes in literature. Dominated by the Gothic architecture of Paris's magnificient cathedral, "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" is the epitome of French romantic literature.

En el París del siglo xv, con sus sombrías callejuelas pobladas por desheredados de la fortuna y espíritus atormentados, la gitana Esmeralda, que predice el porvenir y atrae fatalmente a los hombres, es acusada injustamente de la muerte de su amado y condenada al patibulo. Agradecido por el apoyo que en otro tiempo recibio de ella, Quasimodo, campanero de Nuestra Señora, de fuerza herculea y cuya horrible fealdad esconde un corazon sensible, la salva y le da asilo en la catedral. Nuestra Señora de Paris ha dado lugar a numerosos libretos de opera y a varias versiones cinematograficas.

Another title in the Collector''s Library Series. Complete and unabridged with a specially commissioned afterword.

Una novela total. La sociedad francesa del XIX narrada desde el prisma social, histórico, psicológico y poetico"Novela, por supuesto, pero tambien es Historia; historia de los acontecimientos que cambian la faz del mundo, historia social, historia de las mentalidades. Sin olvidar, la dimension poetica, el aliento epico que insufla a la mayoria de sus capitulos. Con ello, el heroe, Jean Valjean, se convierte en una especie de profeta maldito, Cristo redivivo y recrucificado en beneficio de la humanidad, cuyo destino resume."De la introduccion de Alain Verjat