Les Misérables (Unabridged)
Written by Victor Hugo
Narrated by Peter Silverleaf
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About this audiobook
In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title. However, several alternatives have been used, including The Miserables, The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, The Victims and The Dispossessed. Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption.
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) nació en Besançon, Francia. Educado en escuelas privadas de París, empezó a escribir siendo muy joven. Poeta, novelista y dramaturgo, llevó a sus obras su espíritu inconformista, que sazonó con grandes dosis de sentimentalismo y anécdotas históricas. En sus obras, exponentes máximos del romanticismo literario, siempre volcó su ideologíaliberal, que le obligó a exiliarse de su país en más de una ocasión. Tras el volumen de poesía Odas y poesías diversas (1822), las novelas Han de Islandia (1823) y Bug-Jargal (1824), y los poemas de Odas y baladas (1826), escribió Cromwell (1827), extenso drama histórico, y Marion de Lorme (1829), obra teatral censuradapor ser demasiado liberal. Pero no fue hasta 1830, con la publicación y el estreno de Hernani, posteriormente adaptada por Verdi, cuando logró el reconocimiento del público y de la crítica. A Hernani siguieron la novela Notre-Dame de París (1831), la obra teatral El rey sedivierte (1832, adaptada por Verdi en Rigoletto), Lucrecia Borgia (1833), Claude Gueux (1834), Ruy Blas (1838) y Les Burgraves (1843), también obra teatral, que le supusieron su ingreso en la Academia Francesa en 1841. Durante el Segundo Imperio emigró a Bélgica, donde escribió la sátira Napoleón el pequeño (1852), el poema épico La leyenda de los siglos (1859-1883) y terminó la que sería su obra más extensa y famosa, Los miserables (1862). Regresó a Francia en 1870, donde siguió publicando: El noventa y tres (1874) y El arte de ser abuelo (1877). Murió en París, y sus restos fueron expuestos en el Arco de Triunfo y luego trasladados al Panteón, donde fue sepultado junto a las mayores celebridades francesas.
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Reviews for Les Misérables (Unabridged)
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5
Dec 27, 2025
As others have said the chapters are out of order. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5
Jan 14, 2025
This is a review of the audiobook, not the novel. The narrator is incredible; however, many of the chapters are out of order throughout the novel, and this completely ruins the experience.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5
Jan 24, 2025
The reader is fine, but various chapters are out of order.2 people found this helpful
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5
Jan 29, 2025
The original book itself is great... When you read it in the right order. This audiobook takes pretty much everything you need to read/listen to to understand the entire story and puts it AT THE END! Through the first 50 hours of listening to this audiobook, I really disliked it and could not understand why everyone else enjoyed it so much. Then after the book "ended" there were 10 more hours left. I wondered what that could be about, but I quickly learned. It was the beginning of the book. At. The. End. After listening to that part, everything that was confusing made sense! But I'm not going back to listen to the first 50 hours again. Find a different version of the audiobook to listen to!1 person found this helpful
