Les Miserables (Enriched Classics)
Publisher: Pocket
Published: April 26, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9781416500261
Subjects: French Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Literature: Classics; Classics; Fiction / General
First sentence: IN 1815, Monsieur Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-.
Description: *Note: This text is incorrectly labelled as "complete & unabridged"; it is abridged.*

An ex-convict struggles for redemption in the punishing word of post-Napoleonic France.

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* A concise introduction that gives readers important background information 
* A chronology of the author's life and work 
* A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context 
* An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations 
* Detailed explanatory notes 
* Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work 
* Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction 
* A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience 

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Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: ix; title: Chronology of Victor Hugo's Life and Work
pagenum: xvii; title: Historical Context of Les Misérables
pagenum: xix; title: Fantine
pagenum: 1; title: An Upright Man
pagenum: 3; title: The Fall
pagenum: 39; title: To Entrust Is Sometimes to Abandon
pagenum: 49; title: Javert
pagenum: 77; title: The Champmathieu Affair
pagenum: 85; title: Counterstroke
pagenum: 123; title: Cosette
pagenum: 135; title: Waterloo
pagenum: 137; title: The Ship "Orion"
pagenum: 140; title: Fulfillment of the Promise to the Departed
pagenum: 147; title: The Old Gorbeau House
pagenum: 179; title: A Dark Chase Needs a Silent Hound
pagenum: 190; title: The Convent
pagenum: 206; title: Marius
pagenum: 217; title: Parvulus
pagenum: 219; title: The Grand Bourgeois
pagenum: 222; title: The Grandfather and the Grandson
pagenum: 225; title: The Friends of the ABC
pagenum: 243; title: The Excellence of Misfortune
pagenum: 255; title: The Conjunction of Two Stars
pagenum: 267; title: Patron-Minette
pagenum: 280; title: The Noxious Poor
pagenum: 284; title: St. Denis
pagenum: 335; title: Eponine
pagenum: 337; title: The House in the Rue Plumet
pagenum: 348; title: The End of Which Is Unlike the Beginning
pagenum: 361; title: The Escape
pagenum: 370; title: Enchantments and Desolations
pagenum: 379; title: Where Are They Going?
pagenum: 398; title: June 5th, 1832
pagenum: 405; title: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane
pagenum: 413; title: Corinth
pagenum: 417; title: Marius Enters the Shadow
pagenum: 438; title: The Grandeur of Despair
pagenum: 442; title: The Rue de L'Homme Arme
pagenum: 457; title: Jean Valjean
pagenum: 467; title: War Between Four Walls
pagenum: 469; title: Mire, But Soul
pagenum: 507; title: Javert Off the Track
pagenum: 529; title: The Grandson and the Grandfather
pagenum: 535; title: The White Night
pagenum: 548; title: The Last Drop in the Chalice
pagenum: 556; title: The Twilight Wane
pagenum: 566; title: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn
pagenum: 575; title: Notes
pagenum: 597; title: Interpretive Notes
pagenum: 609; title: Critical Excerpts
pagenum: 617; title: Questions for Discussion
pagenum: 627; title: Suggestions for the Interested Reader
pagenum: 629