LES MISERABLES

Victor Hugo (180285) was the most forceful prolific and versatile of French nineteenthcentury writers. He wrote Romantic costume dramas many volumes of lyrical and satirical verse political and other journalism criticism and several novels the best known of which are Les Misęrables (1862) and the youthful NotreDame de Paris (1831). A royalist and conservative as a young man Hugo later became a committed social democrat and during the Second Empire of Napoleon III was exiled from France living in the Channel Islands. He returned to Paris in 1870 and remained a great public figure until his death: his body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe before being buried in the Panthęon.Now a major musical film from Oscarwinning director Tom Hooper (The Kings Speech) starring Hugh Jackman Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway and also featuring Amanda Seyfreid Helena BonhamCarter and Sacha BaronCohen Victor Hugos Les Misęrables is one of the great works of western literature.Victor Hugos tale of injustice heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience when owing to a case of mistaken identity another man is arrested in his place: and by the relentless investigations of the dogged Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe). It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free however for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine (Anne Hathaway) driven to prostitution by poverty. Victor Hugo (180285) wrote volumes of criticism Romantic costume dramas satirical verse and political journalism but is best remembered for his novels especially NotreDame de Paris (1831) also known as The Hunchback of NotreDame and Les Misęrables (1862) which was adapted into one of the most successful musicals of all time. All human life is hereCameron Mackintosh producer of the musical Les MisęrablesOne of the halfdozen greatest novels of the worldUpton SinclairA great writer inventive witty sly innovatory A. S. Byatt author of Possession