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ISBN-13: | 9781467797900 |
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Publisher: | Lerner Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 08/01/2015 |
Series: | First Avenue Classics |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 1332 |
Lexile: | 1010L (what's this?) |
File size: | 4 MB |
Age Range: | 16 - 17 Years |
About the Author
American comics artist GERALD MCCANN contributed to the legendary Classics Illustrated series. McCann illustrated the adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's 'The Conspiritors', Jules Verne's 'Off on a Comet' and Francis Parkman's 'The Conspiracy of Pontiac' between in 1959 and 1960. He also cooperated on several special issues of the collection, such as 'Crossing the Rockies', 'Royal Canadian Mounted Police' and 'Men, Guns and Cattle'.
NORMAN NODEL (Nochem Yeshaya) was a noted artist and illustrator of children's books and magazines. Nodel began his illustrious career as a field artist in the army, drawing military maps during World War II. After the war, he pursued a successful career as an artist in a variety of styles, notably illustrating a great many issues in the famous 'Classics Illustrated' series in the 1950s. In the 1940s, he had previously been an assistant to George Marcoux, and he has done comic book art for True Comics and Sun Publications.His contributions to 'Classics Illustrated' varied from 'Ivanhoe' to 'Faust' and 'The Invisible Man'. He was also a regular on Charlton's teen, horror and romance titles of the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1960s he contributed to the Warren magazines Eerie and Creepy, using the pen name Donald Norman.During the last twelve years of his life, Mr. Norman Nodel devoted a major amount of his time and energy to illustrating books and magazines specifically for Jewish children, which gave him great pleasure and satisfaction. Norman Nodel worked to the last day of his life. He died on the 25th of February, 2000.
Date of Birth:
February 26, 1802Date of Death:
May 22, 1885Place of Birth:
Besançon, FrancePlace of Death:
Paris, FranceEducation:
Pension Cordier, Paris, 1815-18Read an Excerpt
So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age--the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night--are not yet solved; as long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless. Hauteville House, 1862.
1815, M. Charles Franois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D---- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.
Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
M. Myriel was the son of a counsellor of the Parlement of Aix; of the rank given to the legal profession. His father, intending him to inherit his place, had contracted a marriage for him at the early age of eighteen or twenty, according to a widespread custom among parliamentary families. Charles Myriel, notwithstanding this marriage, had, it was said, been an object of much attention. His person was admirably moulded; although of slight figure, he was elegant andgraceful; all the earlier part of his life had been devoted to the world and to its pleasures. The revolution came, events crowded upon each other; the parliamentary families, decimated, hunted, and pursued, were soon dispersed. M. Charles Myriel, on the first outbreak of the revolution, emigrated to Italy. His wife died there of a lung complaint with which she had been long threatened. They had no children. What followed in the fate of M. Myriel? The decay of the old French society, the fall of his own family, the tragic sights of '93, still more fearful, perhaps, to the exiles who beheld them from afar, magnified by fright--did these arouse in him ideas of renunciation and of solitude? Was he, in the midst of one of the reveries or emotions which then consumed his life, suddenly attacked by one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes overwhelm, by smiting to the heart, the man whom public disasters could not shake, by aiming at life or fortune? No one could have answered; all that was known was that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.
In 1804, M. Myriel was cure of B----(Brignolles). He was then an old man, and lived in the deepest seclusion.
Near the time of the coronation, a trifling matter of business belonging to his curacy--what it was, is not now known precisely--took him to Paris.
Among other personages of authority he went to Cardinal Fesch on behalf of his parishioners.
One day, when the emperor had come to visit his uncle, the worthy cure, who was waiting in the ante-room, happened to be on the way of his Majesty. Napoleon noticing that the old man looked at him with a certain curiousness, turned around and said brusquely:
'Who is this goodman who looks at me?'
Table of Contents
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 |
What People are Saying About This
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