书名：Les Miserables  悲惨世界
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1010L
作者：Victor Hugo
出版社名称：BBC Books
出版时间：2018
语种：英文
ISBN：9781785944000
商品尺寸：12.6 x 5.6 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：1328（以实物为准）
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。


Where there is love, there is hope.
Accompanying a 6-part series on BBC One from the makers of War and Peace, and starring Dominic West, Lily Collins, David Oyelowo and Olivia Coleman, this edition of Les Miserables also has a foreword from screenwriter Andrew Davies (War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice).
Les Miserables is Victor Hugo's classic tale of injustice, heroism and love following the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. Those attempts are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society, this is a novel on an epic scale, moving from the Battle of Waterloo to the the June rebellion of 1832. With striking intensity and relevance to us today, it is testimony to the struggles of France's underclass.
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 Miserables 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(1802-85) was the most forceful, prolific and versatile of French nineteenth-century writers. He wrote Romantic costume dramas, many volumes of lyrical and satirical verse, political and other journalism, criticism and several novels, the best known of which are Les Miserables (1862) and the youthful Notre-Dame de Paris (1831). A royalist and conservative as a young man, Hugo later became a committed social democrat and during the Second Empire of Napoleon III was exiled from France, living in the Channel Islands. He returned to Paris in 1870 and remained a great public figure until his death: his body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe before being buried in the Pantheon.