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  • Les Miserables (Mobi Classics)

    Les Miserables (translated variously from French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, The Victims) (1862) is a novel by French author Victor Hugo, and among the best-known novels of the 19th century. It follows the lives and interactions of several French characters over a twenty year period in the early 19th century that includes the Napoleonic wars and ... Read more

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  • First Love and The Torrents of Spring

    Two Novellas and Five Stories

    Two novellas, written twelve years apart, about the same wound. In First Love (1860) a boy of sixteen worships a girl of twenty-one and discovers who her lover is; in The Torrents of Spring (1872) a young man in Frankfurt is engaged by noon, and by the end of the week has been taken from his fiancée by a woman who wants him only because he is spoken for. Turgenev said the first was the only story ... Read more

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  • The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    Notre-Dame de Paris

    by Victor Hugo ...
    Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood ...
    A cathedral, a bell-ringer born deformed, a gypsy dancer and an archdeacon who cannot bear either of them, in a Paris of 1482 reconstructed street by street. Hugo wrote it to stop the demolition of medieval buildings, and it worked: the book began the restoration of Notre-Dame itself. The novel's real subject is the architecture, and the plot is what happens inside it. Its 62 original ... Read more

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  • Orlóff and His Wife

    Tales of the Barefoot Brigade

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood ...
    A cobbler and his wife in a Volga cellar quarrel, drink and beat each other until cholera comes to the town and both are taken on as hospital orderlies. Gorky published "Orlóff and His Wife" in 1897 out of the tramping years that made him; the other stories here come from the same road. Nothing is resolved and nobody is redeemed, which was the offence and the point. ... Read more

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  • Sevastopol

    Three Sketches from the Siege

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood ...
    Three sketches written in the batteries at Sevastopol by an artillery officer who was there through the siege - the town in December, in May, and in August when it fell. Tolstoy was twenty-six; the Tsar ordered the first sketch translated into French, and no war had been described this way before. ... Read more

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  • First Love, and Other Stories

    The Young Woman Next Door

    by Ivan Turgenev ...
    Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood ...
    A boy of sixteen falls in love with the young woman next door and discovers whose mistress she already is. Turgenev said it was the only one of his stories he could still read with pleasure, and that all of it had happened. ... Read more

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  • Les Misérables

    The Convict, the Bishop and the Barricade

    by Victor Hugo ...
    Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood ...
    A man jailed nineteen years for stealing bread, the policeman who will not stop hunting him, and a barricade in a Paris street where students die for a republic that does not come. Hugo wrote most of it in exile on Guernsey, having carried the unfinished manuscript out of France in 1851. He sent his publisher a telegram consisting of one character, a question mark, and was answered with an ... Read more

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  • The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    Notre-Dame de Paris, 1482

    by Victor Hugo ...
    Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood ...
    A cathedral, a bell-ringer born deformed, a gypsy dancer and an archdeacon who cannot bear either of them, in a Paris of 1482 reconstructed street by street. Hugo wrote it to stop the demolition of medieval buildings, and it worked: the book began the restoration of Notre-Dame itself. The novel's real subject is the architecture, and the plot is what happens inside it. Its 62 original ... Read more

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  • Cuore

    Heart

    Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood ...
    A schoolboy's diary of one year in a Turin classroom, with monthly stories his teacher reads aloud — the little Lombard scout, the drummer boy of Sardinia, from the Apennines to the Andes. De Amicis published "Cuore" in 1886 and it became the book of the new Italian nation, translated everywhere and read for seventy years. The patriotism is unembarrassed and the poverty in the margins is exactly ... Read more

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  • Les Misérables

    The Convict, the Bishop and the Barricade

    by Victor Hugo ...
    Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood ...
    A man jailed nineteen years for stealing bread, the policeman who will not stop hunting him, and a barricade in a Paris street where students die for a republic that does not come. Hugo wrote most of it in exile on Guernsey, having carried the unfinished manuscript out of France in 1851. He sent his publisher a telegram consisting of one character, a question mark, and was answered with an ... Read more

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  • Sevastopol

    Enriched edition. Portraits of Courage and Conflict: Tolstoy's Sevastopol Stories

    In 'Sevastopol,' Leo Tolstoy masterfully depicts the harrowing experiences of soldiers during the Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War. Through a vivid narrative style that melds realism with psychological depth, Tolstoy captures the intense emotional and physical challenges faced by the combatants. The novella is structured around three separate stories, each offering a unique perspective on ... Read more

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