Les Miserables;volume I & II

by Victor Hugo, 1stworld Library (Editor), 1stworld Library (Created by)

Overview

In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D-since 1806.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421846736
Publisher:	1st World Library
Publication date:	05/17/2007
Pages:	732
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.61(d)

About the Author

"If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away," the larger-than-life Victor Hugo once confessed. Indeed, this 19th-century French author's books — from the epic drama Les Misérables to the classic unrequited love story The Hunchback of Notre Dame — have spanned the ages, their themes of morality and redemption as applicable to our times as to his.

Date of Birth:

February 26, 1802

Date of Death:

May 22, 1885

Place of Birth:

Besançon, France

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

Pension Cordier, Paris, 1815-18