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ISBN-13: | 9786057748737 |
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Publisher: | E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books |
Publication date: | 01/01/1900 |
Pages: | 1200 |
Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 2.44(d) |
About the Author
Other books of Author
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)
Date of Birth:
February 26, 1802Date of Death:
May 22, 1885Place of Birth:
Besançon, FrancePlace of Death:
Paris, FranceEducation:
Pension Cordier, Paris, 1815-18Read an Excerpt
So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, 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 woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night--are not yet solved; as 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. Hauteville House, 1862.
1815, M. Charles Franois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D---- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.
Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
M. Myriel was the son of a counsellor of the Parlement of Aix; of the rank given to the legal profession. His father, intending him to inherit his place, had contracted a marriage for him at the early age of eighteen or twenty, according to a widespread custom among parliamentary families. Charles Myriel, notwithstanding this marriage, had, it was said, been an object of much attention. His person was admirably moulded; although of slight figure, he was elegant andgraceful; all the earlier part of his life had been devoted to the world and to its pleasures. The revolution came, events crowded upon each other; the parliamentary families, decimated, hunted, and pursued, were soon dispersed. M. Charles Myriel, on the first outbreak of the revolution, emigrated to Italy. His wife died there of a lung complaint with which she had been long threatened. They had no children. What followed in the fate of M. Myriel? The decay of the old French society, the fall of his own family, the tragic sights of '93, still more fearful, perhaps, to the exiles who beheld them from afar, magnified by fright--did these arouse in him ideas of renunciation and of solitude? Was he, in the midst of one of the reveries or emotions which then consumed his life, suddenly attacked by one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes overwhelm, by smiting to the heart, the man whom public disasters could not shake, by aiming at life or fortune? No one could have answered; all that was known was that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.
In 1804, M. Myriel was cure of B----(Brignolles). He was then an old man, and lived in the deepest seclusion.
Near the time of the coronation, a trifling matter of business belonging to his curacy--what it was, is not now known precisely--took him to Paris.
Among other personages of authority he went to Cardinal Fesch on behalf of his parishioners.
One day, when the emperor had come to visit his uncle, the worthy cure, who was waiting in the ante-room, happened to be on the way of his Majesty. Napoleon noticing that the old man looked at him with a certain curiousness, turned around and said brusquely:
'Who is this goodman who looks at me?'
Table of Contents
About Author
Part 1. A Just Man
Part 2. The Fall
Part 3. In the Year 1817
Part 4. To Confide Is Sometimes to Deliver into a Person's Power
Part 5. The Descent
Part 6. Javert
Part 7. The Champmathieu Affair
Part 8. A Counter-Blow
Part 9. Waterloo
Part 10. The Ship Orion
Part 11. Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman
Part 12. The Gorbeau Hovel
Part 13. For a Black Hunt, A Mute Pack
Part 14. Le Petit-Picpus
Part 15. Parenthesis
Part 16. Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them
Part 17. Paris Studied in its Atom
Part 18. The Great Bourgeois
Part 19. The Grandfather and the Grandson
Part 20. The Friends of the ABC
Part 21. The Excellence of Misfortune
Part 22. The Conjunction of Two Stars
Part 23. Patron Minette
Part 24. The Wicked Poor Man
Part 25. A Few Pages of History
Part 26. Eponine
Part 27. The House in the Rue Plumet
Part 28. Succor From Below May Turn Out to Be Succor From on High
Part 29. The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning
Part 30. Little Gavroche
Part 31. Slang
Part 32. Enchantments and Desolations
Part 33. Whither Are They Going ?
Part 34. The 5th of June, 1832
Part 35. The Atom Fraternizes With the Hurricane
Part 36. Corinthe
Part 37. Marius Enters the Shadow
Part 38. The Grandeur of Despair
Part 39. The Rue de l'Homme Armé
Part 40. The War Between Four Walls
Part 41. The Intestine of the Leviathan
Part 42. Mud But the Soul
Part 43. Javert Derailed
Part 44. Grandson and Grandfather
What People are Saying About This
Hugo's genius was for the creation of simple and recognisable myth. The huge success of Les Miserables as a didactic work on behalf of the poor and oppressed is due to its poetic and myth-enlarged view of human nature... Hugo himself called this novel 'a religious work'; and it has indeed the necessary air of having been written by God in one of his more accessible and saleable moods.