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Les Misérables (/ l eɪ ˌ m ɪ z ə ˈ r ɑː b (əl),-b l ə /, [4] French: [le mizeʁabl]) is a French epic historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published on 31 March 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. Les Misérables has been popularized through numerous adaptations for film, television, and the ...
Les Misérables (/ l eɪ ˌ m ɪ z ə ˈ r ɑː b (əl),-b l ə / lay MIZ-ə-RAHB(-əl), - RAH-blə, French: [le mizeʁabl]), colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz (/ l eɪ ˈ m ɪ z / lay MIZ), is a sung-through musical with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and a book by Schönberg and Boublil, based on the 1862 novel of the same name by ...
Jean Valjean (French: [ʒɑ̃ val.ʒɑ̃]) is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.The story depicts the character's struggle to lead a normal life and redeem himself after serving a 19-year-long prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his sister's starving children and attempting to escape from prison.
Jean Val Jean is a 1935 novel by Solomon Cleaver.It is a much abbreviated retelling in English of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.. According to the publisher's preface, around the turn of the 20th century, Cleaver, a young minister from Winnipeg, read through Les Misérables and often retold it in his own words.
None of the English translations include the excised chapters but some French editions include them as Appendix or in Notes. Les Misères (1845-48) - two draft versions of Les Misérables - not yet translated into English but available online in French; Toilers of the Sea (Les Travailleurs de la Mer – 1866) The Man Who Laughs ( L'Homme qui ...
Grantaire (French pronunciation: [Grɑ̃-tər]) is a fictional character from the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. He is a student from the South of France and is one of the principal characters of the revolutionary group known as the Friends of the ABC. According to the novel, the Friends of the ABC only tolerate him because of his ...
1949, Les Nouveaux Misérables, directed by Henri Verneuil, a short film inspired by Les misérables; 1950, Re Mizeraburu: Kami To Akuma (English: Les Miserables: Gods and Demons) and Re Mizeraburu: Kami To Jiyu No Hata (English: Les Misérables: Flag of Love and Liberty). Directed by Daisuke Itô and Masahiro Makino respectively, and released ...
Les Misérables is a 1995 French war film written, produced and directed by Claude Lelouch. [2] Set in France during the first half of the 20th century, the film concerns a poor and illiterate man named Henri Fortin (Jean-Paul Belmondo) who is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic 1862 novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels to his own life.