Biblioteche dell'Alto Adige

Abstract: Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood.Victor-Marie Hugo, (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms.

Abstract: Après dix-neuf ans d'emprisonnement au bagne de Toulon, Jean Valjean obtient sa liberté et entame une nouvelle vie. Nous sommes au début du mois d'octobre 1815, plus de trois mois après la défaite de Napoléon. Les vicissitudes des nombreux et inoubliables personnages - le bon évêque Myriel, l'ex-bagnard Jean Valjean, la triste Fantine, la petite Cosette, l'avide Thénardier, le courageux Gavroche, l'inflexible Javert, la malheureuse Éponine - se mêlent dans ces pages à l'histoire du peuple de Paris et à l'évocation des moments cruciaux de son épopée, depuis la bataille de Waterloo jusqu'aux barricades de 1832. Point d'orgue de l'œuvre monumentale de Victor Hugo, synthèse admirable de sa vocation poético-symbolique et de sa vocation réaliste-sociale, "Les Misérables" - médité dès 1845 - ne verra le jour que dix-sept ans plus tard, en 1862. Jalon de la littérature du XIXe siècle, fresque grandiose d'une métropole industrielle, c'est une œuvre d'art absolue, un livre vivant qui continue à bouleverser les lecteurs parce que c'est un roman où il y a tout : l'amour, la douleur, le bonheur, la mort et la renaissance, tout ce qui transcende le temps et touche à l'essence la plus profonde de l'homme.Édition intégrale avec table des matières interactive. Tous les cinq tomes de l'ouvrage.

Abstract: An epic portrait of crime, punishment, exile, justice, redemption, love, despair and high idealism, Les Misérables is justifiably regarded as one of the greatest novels of all time. At its heart are the reverberations rippling from the life of one man. Jean Valjean.Imprisoned in the Bagne of Toulon for 19 years for the original crime of stealing a loaf of bread, Valjean emerges embittered; fuelled by rage at a broken system of justice. When the course of his life is changed by a single, unexpected act of faith and generosity he begins a life of escape and reparation. Yet as he attempts to forge a place in society Valjean is forever dogged by the pursuit of tenacious policeman Javert, who sees in the law only an immoveable and undeniable force to be obeyed at all costs.

Abstract: Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title. However, several alternatives have been used, including The Miserables, The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, The Victims and The Dispossessed. Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption.Examining the nature of law and grace, the novel elaborates upon the history of France, the architecture and urban design of Paris, politics, moral philosophy, antimonarchism, justice, religion, and the types and nature of romantic and familial love. Les Misérables has been popularized through numerous adaptations for the stage, television, and film, including a musical and a film adaptation of that musical.Upton Sinclair described the novel as "one of the half-dozen greatest novels of the world," and remarked that Hugo set forth the purpose of Les Misérables in the Preface:So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, 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 women 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.Towards the end of the novel, Hugo explains the work's overarching structure:The book which the reader has before him at this moment is, from one end to the other, in its entirety and details ... a progress from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsehood to truth, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from corruption to life; from bestiality to duty, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. The starting point: matter, destination: the soul. The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end.

Abstract: I miserabili (Les Misérables) venne pubblicato da Victor Hugo nel 1862, è uno di quei romanzi a "tutto tondo" in cui le vicissitudini dei personaggi divengono parte della storia sociale e politica che li attraversa. Siamo nella Parigi della post Restaurazione, in un arco di tempo di circa venti anni vengono raccontate le vicende di personaggi che appartengono agli strati più bassi della società, i cosiddetti "miserabili": persone cadute in miseria, ex forzati, prostitute, monelli di strada, studenti in povertà. Ma personaggi soprattutto in grado di fare grandi cadute e perentorie risalite, di peccare e di redimersi nell'arco della propria vita.

Abstract: Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside France, his most famous works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris), 1831.In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages).Notre-Dame de Paris, ("Our Lady of Paris") is a French Romantic/Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831.The story is set in Paris in 1482 during the reign of Louis XI. The gypsy Esmeralda (born as Agnes) captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, but especially Quasimodo and his guardian Archdeacon Claude Frollo. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood