The miserable: Tome II, Cosette

by Victor Hugo

Overview

PREFACE So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century--the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light--are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use. HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781500479961
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	07/12/2014
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Victor Hugo was born February 26, 1802 in Besancon France. Poet, novelist and playwright Victor Hugo is undoubtedly one of the giants of literature française.Les novels the best known are Victor Hugo "Notre-Dame de Paris" (1831) and "Les Miserables" (1862).
The author of Les Misérables, and punishment of many poems has combined both ambition, durability, power and engineering work, which could only contribute to the mixture of fascination and irritation it causes still . I wrote with simplicity and power the joys and woes of life. Victor Hugo was a hard worker.
Between 1827 (Preface to his drama Cromwell) and 1830 (representation of Hernani, which is the occasion of a famous "battle"), Victor Hugo himself as the leader of romanticism.
From 1830 to 1840, he published: large historical novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831); dramas, Marion Delorme (1831), The King enjoys (1832), Mary Tudor (1833), Lucrezia Borgia (1833), Ruy Blas (1838); especially four books of poetry, where he shows master lyrical expression of ideas and feelings: the Autumn Leaves (1831), Songs of the Twilight (1835), the inner voice (1837), and the Rays Shadows (1840).
Victor Hugo died in Paris on 23 May 1885 to 83 years. More than 3 million people attended his funeral ..

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