Les Misérables
Hugo places a defence of beauty beside the loss of Jean Valjean’s name in prison. Read the bishop’s reply and the narrator’s account in their separate scenes of usefulness and human dignity.
Who it suits
Readers interested in beauty, justice, kindness.
Reading experience
Moderate to demanding; long narrative, imprisonment, poverty and social conflict. This is an Edsverb editorial guide, not a measured reading score.
The edition
- Edition
- English electronic edition; Project Gutenberg eBook 135; Isabel Florence Hapgood translation; underlying print publisher unspecified; catalogue HTML ISBN
- Language
- English
- Translator
- Isabel Florence Hapgood
- ISBN
- 9798238001357
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