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With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. This exciting new translation with Jillian Tamaki’s brilliant cover art will be a gift both to readers who have already fallen for its timeless story and to new readers discovering it for the first time.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Victor Hugo’s tale of injustice, heroism, and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him, and has been a perennial favorite since it first appeared over 150 years ago. Les Misérables Penguin Classics By: Christine Donougher, Victor Hugo, Robert Tombs Narrated by: Adeel Akhtar, Natalie Simpson, Adrian Scarborough, and others Length: 65 hrs and 41 mins Unabridged Overall 5 out of 5 stars 143. The subject of the world’s longest-running musical and the award-winning film, Les Misérables is a genuine literary treasure.
It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty.The first new Penguin Classics translation in forty years of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece-published in a stunning Graphic Deluxe edition. Winner of the French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation’s 29th Annual Translation Prize in Fiction. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. Victor Hugo’s tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him.
This definitive recording includes an introduction by Robert Tombs. This Penguin Classic is performed by an ensemble cast which includes the BAFTA award-winning actor Adeel Akhtar ( Killing Eve, The Night Manager, Les Miserables), Adrian Scarborough ( Gavin and Stacey, The King’s Speech), Natalie Simpson ( Outlander, Les Miserables), Emma Fielding ( Unforgotten, Les Miserables) and John Owen-Jones, who was the youngest actor ever to play the part of Jean Valjean in the stage show of Les Miserables, and who has appeared as Jean Valjean on Broadway and in the West End. Victor Hugo (18021885), novelist, poet, playwright, and French national icon, is best known for two of today’s most popular world classics: Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, as well as other works, including The Toilers of the Sea and The Man Who Laughs.Hugo was elected to the Académie Française in 1841. Impossible Dream, this classic musical celebrates the power of theatre, the bravery of holding strong to our dreams, and the resilience of imagination.
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