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The translator explains in an introduction that he has placed two of the novel's longer digressive passages into appendices and made some minor abridgements in the text. Lee Fahnestock and Norman McAfee. Signet Classics. 3 March 1987. An unabridged edition based on the Wilbour translation with its language modernized. Paperback ISBN 0-451-52526-4
Charles Edwin Wilbour was born in Little Compton, Rhode Island, on March 17, 1833.He received a classical education and entered Brown University, where he took a prize for proficiency in Greek and was noted for his thorough acquaintance with the ancient and modern languages, but did not graduate due to poor health.
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 ...
Since the original publication of Les Misérables in 1862, the character of Bishop Myriel has been in a large number of adaptations in numerous types of media based on the novel, such as books, films, [15] musicals, plays and games. Bret Harte parodied Les Misérables in his Condensed Novels. In this version, Myriel confesses to stealing his ...
A meeting of the Friends of the ABC. The Friends of the ABC (French: Les Amis de l'ABC), or simply the ABC, is a fictional association of revolutionary French republican students featured in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.
On Wednesday, Jan. 22, Jackman, 56, shared a video to Instagram that showed him singing the end of the song "Valjean's Soliloquy" from the 2012 movie musical Les Misérables.
Enjolras is a republican, whose views are significantly shaped by the Montagnards of the French Revolution.The "divine right" of revolution that he expresses is said to go "as far as Robespierre", [2]: 563 and Hugo declares that "in the Convention, he would have been Saint Just".
Read below for the full text of Lincoln's address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition ...