Victor Hugo - Böcker

Jean Valjean, en utfattig skogsarbetare från byn Faverolles, ställs år 1795 inför rätta efter att ha stulit en bit bröd. Han döms till fem års straffarbete som galärslav. Efter flera misslyckade rymningsförsök, som förlänger hans strafftid, blir h...

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Förväxlade identiteter och bortrövade spädbarn ligger till grund för hätska konflikter i Ringaren i Notre-Dame - Victor Hugos myllrande kärleksroman med gestalter som blivit klassiska: den vackra Esmeralda, som väcker kärlek och begär överallt, de...

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Med Frankenstein, Den osynlige mannen, Ringaren av Notre Dame och Dr Jekyll och Mr Hyde. Få serietidningar har varit lika lästa och älskade som Illustrerade Klassiker. Amerikanen Al Kanters snilleblixt att göra serieversioner av »Berömda berättare...

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Few novels ever swept the world with such overpowering impact as "Les Miserables". Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, "Les Miserables" is not only a supe...

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I ett myllrande medeltida Paris utspelar sig Victor Hugos klassiska roman om den missbildade och döve ringaren Quasimodo som förälskar sig i den undersköna zigenarflickan Esmeralda. Victor Marie Hugo , föddes i Besançon 1802-02-26 och dog i Paris ...

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One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Merables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, ...

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One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche...

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"The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness." "So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use," says Victor Hugo in the preface ...

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Den vanskapta Quasimodo lever ett tillbakadraget och ensamt liv. Gömd från omvärlden i kyrkan Notre-Dame där han ringer i klockorna. Men hans liv förändras när han får syn på den vackra Esmeralda. Men det är många som är ute efter Esmeraldas kärle...

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A brilliant modern translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs. This is the best translation of the novel available in English, as recommended by David Bellos in The Novel of...

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With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by James Carroll Beckwirth (1899). Set in 1482, Victor Hugos powerful novel of imagination, caprice and fantasy is a meditation on love, fate, architecture...

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En vacker söndagsmorgon hade någon lagt en varelse på bänken utanför kyrkan. Där brukade man lägga hittebarn för att de skulle bli omhändertagna av fattigvården. Det som nu låg där hade lockat en samling nyfikna till sig. Och anledningen var att d...

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Tolstoy is said to have called Les Miserables the greatest novel ever written, and it exerted a powerful influence on the creation of War and Peace. At one level a detective story in which the relentless Inspector Javert obsessively pursues the es...

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Victor Hugos episka berättelse om orättvisa och förlåtelse följer Jean Valjean, en förrymd fånge som vill lägga sitt förflutna som galärslav bakom sig. Valjean antar en ny identitet för att kunna gå vidare och göra rätt för sig, men den envetne po...

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Jean Valjean, a starving man who commits an act that will haunt him for the rest of his life; Cosette, a young orphan girl; Javert, an obsessed policeman; Marius, a revolutionary who inspires the working classes. These unforgettable characters and...

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Skrattmänniskan [ L"homme qui rit , 1869] av Victor Hugo. Victor Hugo [1802 - 1885] var en fransk författare, dramatiker och diktare. Till hans mest berömda verk hör bland annat Ringaren i Notre Dame och Samhällets olycksbarn .

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One of the most widely read novels of all time, Les Miserables was the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugo's career. An enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I, t...

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Jean Valjean, a starving man who commits an act that will haunt him for the rest of his life; Cosette, a young orphan girl; Javert, an obsessed policeman; Marius, a revolutionary who inspires the working classes. These unforgettable characters and...

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Read the masterful story of romance and revolution behind the hit BBC TV series. Les Misrables is a novel peopled by colourful characters from the nineteenth-century Parisian underworld; the street children, the prostitutes and the criminals. In t...

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Adapted for stage and screen, loved by millions, Victor Hugos classic novel of love and tragedy set in 19th century France is reborn in this fantastic new manga edition! Gorgeous and expressive art brings to life the unforgettable stories of Jean ...

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Men whose minds are aflame with idealism gather at the Corinthe, in the center of Paris, to stage a rebellion! Marius and Valjean have an unexpected reunion at the barricades, and then part ways equally unexpectedly. The long night of revolution d...

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Victor Hugo spent years in political exile off the coast of Normandy. While there, he produced his masterpiece, Les Miserables--but that wasn't all: he also wrote a book-length poem, La Fin de Satan, left unfinished and not published until af...

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I 1600-talets England köper ett kringresande sällskap barn för att deformera dem och sälja dem som narrar. Den föräldralöse pojken Gwynplaine får sitt ansikte opererat så att det ser ut som att han alltid ler. Han försörjer sig på att låta marknad...

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More commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo's Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love, Notre-Dame de Paris, is translated with an introduction by John Sturrock in Penguin Classics. In the vaulted Gothic towers ...

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Hugo's grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men: Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and Captain Phoebus. Falsely accused of trying to...

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FATEFUL DECISIONS, FATAL CHOICES Jean Valjean has escaped his fate and, as mayor and factory owner, brought prosperity to the small town where he has settled. But when word comes that an innocent man may pay for his crimes, Valjean has to decide w...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.'Set in medieval Paris, against the backdrop of the brooding Cathedral...

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Water Scarcity and Sustainable Agriculture in Semiarid Environment: Tools, Strategies and Challenges for Woody Crops explores the complex relationship between water scarcity and climate change, agricultural water-use efficiency, crop-water stress ...

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