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Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

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Les Misérables Quotes
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Les Misérables ( 1862 ) is a novel by Victor Hugo which many consider to be one of the greatest works of world literature. It tells of the interwoven lives of its characters over several decades of the early 19th Century, focusing to a great extent on...


Author Biography

Name: Victor Marie Hugo, Vicomte
Birth Date: February 26, 1802
Death Date: May 22, 1885
Place of Birth: Besancon, France
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, poet

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Biography of Victor (Marie) Hugo
14645 words, approx. 48.8 pages
On 22 May 1885 Victor Hugo died, prompting international mourning unprecedented for a literary figure. Within an hour the periodical Gil Blas published a special edition, which sold out everywhere, and soon millions flocked to Paris in a spectacular disp...
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Biography of Victor (Marie) Hugo
14601 words, approx. 48.7 pages
No century of French literature has been better represented by a single author than the nineteenth, and no writer better personifies the French nineteenth century than Victor Hugo. His life span corresponds closely to the century's limits; for fully fift...
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Biography of Victor (Marie) Hugo
11653 words, approx. 38.8 pages
Victor Hugo, one of France's most prolific nineteenth-century authors, wrote novels, poems, and dramatic works. His career as a playwright began in 1816 and ended almost sixty years later. The dramas and prefaces that he wrote between 1826 and 1843 const...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Les Miserables Summary
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Billed as "the world's most popular musical," Les Miserables has been translated into numerous languages and has been performed in theaters all over the world. With music by Claude-Michel Schoenberg, book by Schoenberg and Alain...
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Les Miserables Summary
3,908 words, approx. 13 pages
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Victor Hugo, the son of a general in Napoleon's empire, was born in 1802 in Besancon, France. Although raised by his mother to be a royalist, Hugo's inclination to republican ideals and his mild nostalgia for his father...
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Les Misérables Information
4,115 words, approx. 14 pages
Les Misérables (translated variously from French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, The Victims) (1862) is a novel by French author Victor Hugo, and among the best-known novels of the 19th century. It follows the...


News and Journals
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Le Caire 2007
02/01/2008: 370 words, approx. 1 pages
International sans doute, mais pas au point d'admettre les films du voisin israélien, le festival du Caire, qui souffre toujours de la dispersion des lieux de projection et des critères de sélection, reste intéressant pour ceux dont les cinémas arabes piquent la curiosité. ...
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La vie dans les traces
02/01/2007: 1,507 words, approx. 5 pages
Spectrologie de Clint Eastwood Le soldat Saigo (Lettres d'iwojima) ne cesse de maudire le terrain micacé, calciné et argenté qu'un capitaine imbu de son autorité l'oblige à creuser. \^e. private John « Doc » Bradley (Ryan Phillippe), quant à lui, titube en jurant...


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Changing of Jean Val Jean
1,606 words, approx. 5 pages
This essay explains the transformation of Jean Val Jean throughout his life in Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables."
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Essay Grade: 86%
Jean Valjean's "Scarlet Letter"
1,446 words, approx. 5 pages
Examines Les Miserables, a novel by Victor Hugo. Provides a detailed plot summary. Discusses Jean Valjean's need to prove himself. Explores the "scarlet letter" of his conviction and how it follows him.
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Essay Grade: 87%
Les Miserables
1,038 words, approx. 4 pages
Essay discusses the story "Les miserables."
 


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Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

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