{"product_id":"les-miserables-introduction-by-peter-washington-with-ribbon-marker-9780375403170","title":"Les Miserables: Introduction by Peter Washington [With Ribbon Marker]","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt has been said that Victor Hugo has a street named after him in virtually every town in France. A major reason for the singular celebrity of this most popular and versatile of the great French writers is \u003ci\u003eLes Misérables \u003c\/i\u003e(1862). In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert--Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLes Misérables \u003c\/i\u003eis at once a tense thriller that contains one of the most compelling chase scenes in all literature, an epic portrayal of the nineteenth-century French citizenry, and a vital drama--highly particularized and poetic in its rendition but universal in its implications--of the redemption of one human being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVictor Hugo (1802-85), novelist, poet, playwright, and French national icon, is best known for two of today's most popular world classics: \u003ci\u003eLes Misérables \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as other works, including \u003ci\u003eThe Toilers of the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Laughs\u003c\/i\u003e. Hugo was elected to the Académie Française in 1841. As a statesman, he was named a Peer of France in 1845. He served in France's National Assemblies in the Second Republic formed after the 1848 revolution, and in 1851 went into self-imposed exile upon the ascendance of Napoleon III, who restored France' s government to authoritarian rule. Hugo returned to France in 1870 after the proclamation of the Third Republic.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50617556599058,"sku":"9780375403170","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9c76108d-33bd-4d6a-956f-e75fcc5cc527.jpg?v=1756797556","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/les-miserables-introduction-by-peter-washington-with-ribbon-marker-9780375403170","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}