书名：Les Miserables 悲惨世界难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1010L作者：Victor Hugo维克多·雨果出版社名称：Signet Classics出版时间：2013语种：英文ISBN：9780451419439商品尺寸：10.6 x5.4 x 17.3 cm包装：简装页数：1488

Les Miserables《悲惨世界》是法国大文豪维克多·雨果在1862年所发表的一部长篇小说，故事的主线围绕主人公土伦苦犯冉·阿让的个人经历，融进了法国的历史、革命、战争、道德哲学、法律、正义、宗教信仰，是十九世纪知名的小说之一。曾多次被改编成影视作品。

本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，内容完整无删减，书本轻巧便携。由Lee Fahnestock和Norman Macafee基于19世纪Charles E. Wilbour的经典译本翻译而成，Lee Fahnestock作序，Chris Bohjalian后记。推荐理由： 1.故事情节错综复杂、设计巧妙、形象鲜明突出、色彩浓重瑰丽、气势磅礴浩大，堪称文学史上现实主义与浪漫主义结合的典范，不可错过的文学佳作； 2.书中穿插了当时法国革命动乱的背景和拿破仑滑铁卢战役的描写，以及当时法国社会的很多细节都有论及，比如俚语、下水道等，特别适合法国文学、历史爱好者阅读； 3.英文译本用词准确，表达地道，内容与法语原版一致。 “Hugo’s genius was for the creation of simple and recognizable myth. The huge success of Les Misérables as a didactic work on behalf of the poor and oppressed is due to his poetic and myth-enlarged view of human nature.”—V. S. Pritchett This Signet Classics edition is the ONLY completely unabridged paperback edition available today.  Introducing one of the most famous characters in literature, Jean Valjean—the noble peasant imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread—Les Misérables ranks among the greatest novels of all time. In it, Victor Hugo takes readers deep into the Parisian underworld, immerses them in a battle between good and evil, and carries them to the barricades during the uprising of 1832 with a breathtaking realism that is unsurpassed in modern prose.  Within his dramatic story are themes that capture the intellect and the emotions: crime and punishment, the relentless persecution of Valjean by Inspector Javert, the desperation of the prostitute Fantine, the amorality of the rogue Thénardier, and the universal desire to escape the prisons of our own minds. Les Misérables gave Victor Hugo a canvas upon which he portrayed his criticism of the French political and judicial systems, but the portrait that resulted is larger than life, epic in scope—an extravagant spectacle that dazzles the senses even as it touches the heart.   Translated by Lee Fahnestock and Norman Macafee, based on the classic nineteenth-century Charles E. Wilbour translation.   Inlcudes an Introduction by Lee Fahnestock and a New Afterword by Chris Bohjalian

Les Miserables《悲惨世界》主要讲述了在19世纪的法国，穷苦农民冉·阿让因偷面包而入狱多年，终获假释却再次无视法律，不得不开始逃亡。被收留他的主教感化后，冉·阿让决心洗心革面，开始新生活。十年后他成为成功的商人并当上市长，却一直受到铁面警官沙威锲而不舍地追捕。 Set in the Parisian underworld and plotted like a detective story,Les Misérables follows the adventures of Jean Valjean, originally an honest peasant, who has been imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving family. A hardened criminal upon his release, he eventually reforms, becoming a successful industrialist and town mayor. Despite this, Valjean is haunted by an impulsive former crime and is pursued relentlessly by the police inspector Javert. 

维克多·雨果（Victor Hugo，1802 ~1885），法国作家，19世纪前期积极浪漫主义文学的代表作家，被人们称为“法兰西的莎士比亚”。一生写过多部诗歌、小说、剧本、各种散文和文艺评论及政论文章，在法国及世界有着广泛的影响力，代表作有The Hunchback of Notre Dame《巴黎圣母院》、Les Miserables《悲惨世界》。

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was the son of a high-ranking officer in Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grand Army. A man of literature and politics, he participated in vast changes as France careened back and forth between empire and more democratic forms of government. As a young man in Paris, he became well-known and sometimes notorious for his poetry, fiction, and plays. In 1845, the year that he began writing his masterwork, Les Misérables, the king made him a peer of France, with a seat in the upper legislative body. There he advocated universal free education, general suffrage, and the abolition of capital punishment. When an uprising in 1848 ushered in a republic, he stopped writing Les Misérables and concentrated on politics. But in 1851, when the president proclaimed himself emperor, Hugo’s opposition forced him into a long exile on the British Channel Islands. There, in 1860, he resumed work on Les Misérables, finishing it the next year. With the downfall of the emperor in 1870, Hugo returned to France, where he received a hero’s welcome as a champion of democracy. At his death in 1885, two million people lined the streets of Paris as his coffin was borne to the Pantheon. There he was laid to rest with every honor the French nation could bestow.

“Before him he saw TWO ROADS, both equally STRAIGHT; but he did see two; and that TERRIFIED him—he who had never in his LIFE KNOWN anything but one straight line. And, BITTER ANGUISH, these two roads were CONTRADICTORY.” “A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in—what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” “And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.” “Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.” “So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three problems of the century—the degradation of man by the exploitation of his labour, the ruin of women by starvation and the atrophy 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 still broader point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, there should be a need for books such as this.”