(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)It has been said that Victor Hugo has a street named after him in virtually every town in France. A major reason for the singular celebrity of this most popular and versatile of the great French writers is Les MisÃrables (1862). In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean—a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert—Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.Les MisÃrables is at once a tense thriller that contains one of the most compelling chase scenes in all literature, an epic portrayal of the nineteenth-century French citizenry, and a vital drama—highly particularized and poetic in its rendition but universal in its implications—of the redemption of one human being.
Pierre de Beaumont Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)





Aladin ou la lampe merveilleuse
- 79bladzijden
- 3 uur lezen
from the Arabic text and translations by Galland and Burton
Le roman de Renart
- 143bladzijden
- 6 uur lezen
Renart, rusé, habile et surtout beau parleur, a plus d'un tour dans son sac lorsqu'il s'amuse à piéger Ysengrin, le loup sot et glouton, Tiécelin le corbeau, Chantecler le coq, Daine Pinte la poule... Mais, las d'être dupés par ce goupil malicieux, les animaux lui complotent à leur façon une drôle de surprise ! Rira bien qui rira le dernier !
Les misâerables
- 240bladzijden
- 9 uur lezen
Features characters such as: Valjean, the criminal trying to escape his reputation; Javert, the police agent trailing him; the unfortunate Fantine and her daughter, Cosette; the rascally Thenardier; and, above all the splendid street urchin, Gavroche.
Aladin et la lampe merveilleuse
- 79bladzijden
- 3 uur lezen
Un kit loisirs créatifs comprenant : 1 livre de conseils ; 1 polybag comprenant des perles transparentes (rose, violet, bleu cyan) ; 2 charms (clé de sol et étoile) ; 1 fil de coton ciré violet ; 2 rubans satinés ; 1 set de 18 fils de bracelets brésiliens.