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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP An ex-convict struggles for redemption in the punishing world of post-Napoleonic France. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: • A concise introduction that gives readers important background information • A chronology of the... read more

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Memorable Quotes

  • “You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous and because it is impenetrable”
  • “An unworthy thought can no more spring up in it than a nettle on a glacier”
  • “"I declare I am confused!"”
    Cosette

First Sentence

AN hour before sunset, on the evening of a day in the beginning of October, 1815, a man travelling afoot entered the little town of Digne.

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  1. Victor Hugo (Author)
 

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