Les+Miserables

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** Book Title  ** : Les Miserables ** Author ** : Victor Hugo



**"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 solved; so 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.** " //Vrai ou faux, ce qu’on dit des hommes tient souvent autant de place dans leur vie et souvent dans leur destinée que ce qu’ils font.//
 * **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.**

//**Les Misérables**// (literally "The Miserable Ones"; usually pronounced [|/leɪ ˌmɪzəˈrɑːbl/] ; French pronunciation: [|[le mizeʁabl(ə)]] ), translated variously from the [|French] as //The Miserable Ones//, //The Wretched//, //The Poor Ones//, //The Wretched Poor//, or //The Victims//), is an 1862 French novel by author [|Victor Hugo] and is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. It follows the lives and interactions of several French characters over a seventeen-year period in the early 19th century, starting in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 [|June Rebellion].[|[1]] The novel focuses on the struggles of ex-convict [|Jean Valjean] and his experience of redemption. It examines the nature of law and grace, and expounds upon the [|history of France], [|architecture] of [|Paris], [|politics], [|moral philosophy], [|antimonarchism], [|justice], religion, and the types and nature of [|romantic] and familial love. The story is [|historical fiction] because it contains factual and historic events. //Les Misérables// is known to many through its numerous stage and screen adaptations, most notably the [|stage musical of the same name], sometimes abbreviated "//Les Mis//" (pronounced [|/leɪ ˈmɪz/] ).

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