Les miserables, volume II Cosette (English Edition)

by Victor Hugo

Overview

In this second part of Les Misérables, the author presents a portrait of Jean Valjean, a good man but sentenced to prison for stealing bread to feed his family. Being in prison the man tries several times to escape so his sentence grows in every attempt. He is released after serving 19 years in prison. This time of confinement changes his life, he becomes a cold and distant man ...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781543067477
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	02/12/2017
Pages:	86
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.18(d)

About the Author

"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 author's books — 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 as applicable to our times as to his.

Date of Birth:

February 26, 1802

Date of Death:

May 22, 1885

Place of Birth:

Besançon, France

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

Pension Cordier, Paris, 1815-18