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Title: Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Miserables The
Author: BELLOS DAVID
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 19/03/2018
Imprint: PENGUIN
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
The Novel of the Century brings to life the extraordinary story of how Victor Hugo managed to write his novel of the downtrodden despite a revolution, a coup d’Utat and political exile; how he pulled off the deal of the century to get it published, and set it on course to become the novel that epitomizes the grand sweep of history in the nineteenth century. Placing a century of scholarship into narrative form and packed full of information about the background and design of Les MisUrables, this biography of a masterpiece nonetheless insists that the moral and social message of Hugo’s ever-popular novel is just as important for our century as it was for its own.
ISBN: 9780241954478
Pages: 304