
Les Misérables
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This Penguin Classic is performed by an ensemble cast which includes the BAFTA award-winning actor Adeel Akhtar (Killing Eve, The Night Manager, Les Miserables), Adrian Scarborough (Gavin and Stacey, The King's Speech), Natalie Simpson (Outlander, Les Miserables), Emma Fielding (Unforgotten, Les Miserables) and John Owen-Jones, who was the youngest actor ever to play the part of Jean Valjean in the stage show of Les Miserables, and who has appeared as Jean Valjean on Broadway and in the West End. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Robert Tombs.
Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, 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 and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty.
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The length of the audio lends itself to the different narrators. I wish I could give more stars.
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The translation made some great choices. Victor Hugo frequently described when characters are speaking to one another in French using the formal pronoun Vous versus the more familiar Tu. The hard copy of the book my son has translates these always as You in English without distinction. Here, in the Penguin Audiobook they retain the French words when appropriate to help the listener understand what Hugo wants you to see. It's a small thing, but well executed in this audiobook in my opinion. I read an abridged version when I was a teenager, and after listening to this unabridged audiobook I see that there is a lot about the politics of their day that could be omitted without losing any of the story of the main characters. However, I am enjoying this more complete view of the complexities of French opinions in the decades after Napoleon. It seems very similar to the passions and fierce animosities of our era. People are complicated, and they have the tendency of seeing their rivals as more simplistic. This is clear in Hugo's text as it is in our own 21st century lives.
A superb version. Well translated, and narrated
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pick this version!
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My only complaint is that the author digress' a LOT several chapters/hours of political dissertations and his opinions on current events of the time that have absolutely nothing to do with the story... I always try to read books in their entirety and original version but for this one, you should definitely go with the abridged version because you won't be missing anything from the story.
P.S. Keep a box of tissues close by!
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