Miserables

Level 4 Penguin Readers

Victor Hugo

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Penguin US
12 March 2024

Series: Peguin English Readers

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.

Les Miserables, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

In nineteenth-century France, life was hard for many people. Victor Hugo's famous book tells the story of Jean Valjean, who spends 19 years in prison for stealing bread. When Valjean leaves prison he starts a business and tries to become a better man, but Javert the policeman will do anything to stop him.

By: Victor Hugo
Imprint: Penguin US
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 77g
ISBN: 9780241636848
ISBN 10: 0241636841
Series: Peguin English Readers
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 12 March 2024
Recommended Age: From 12 to 17 years
Audience: ELT/ESL , Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , Young adult , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Children's (6-12)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Victor Hugo was born in Besan on, France in 1802. In 1822 he published his first collection of poetry and in the same year, he married his childhood friend, Ad le Foucher. In 1831 he published his most famous youthful novel, Notre-Dame de Paris. A royalist and conservative as a young man, Hugo later became a committed social democrat and was exiled from France as a result of his political activities. In 1862, he wrote his longest and greatest novel, Les Miserables. After his death in 1885, his body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe before being buried in the Pantheon.