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(0)Victor Hugo
Author
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jean Valjean is arrested for stealing bread and sent to prison for twenty years. Upon his release he finds the world a very unforgiving place except for the kindness of Bishop Bienvenu who encourages him to return the kindness to others. In the course of his life he befriends the dying prostitute, Fantine, and adopts her daughter Cosette.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
483 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.
4) Ninety-three
Author
Pub. Date
1900
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ninety-Three (1874) is the final novel of Victor Hugo. As a work of historical fiction, the story is set during the period of conflict between the newly formed French Republic and the Royalists who sought to reverse the gains of the revolution. Praised for its morality and honest depiction of the horrors of war, Ninety-Three influenced such wide-ranging political thinkers as Joseph Stalin and Ayn Rand. "The soldiers forced cautiously. Everything was...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
GN 500L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stowed away in the bell tower of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, strong Quasimodo is treated like a monster. Then he meets a kind gypsy girl, Esmeralda, and he becomes an unexpected hero when he saves from an unjust sentence of death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
512 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmerelda, a beautiful gypsy dancer to whom he becomes completely devoted. Esmerelda, however, has also attracted the attention of the sinister archdeacon Claude Frollo, and when she rejects his lecherous approaches, Frollo hatches a plot to destroy her, that only Quasimodo can prevent. Victor...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (78 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of a man who, while trying to forget his past and live an honest life, risks his freedom to take care of a motherless young girl during a period of political unrest in Paris.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (69 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
In this graphic version of the story, Quasimodo, the reviled bell-ringer of Notre Dame, becomes a hero when he rescues the gypsy girl Esmeralda from an unjust sentence of death.
12) Les misérables
Author
Series
Lexile measure
GN 400L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a new graphic novel adaptation, escaped convict Jean Valjean risks his freedom to take care of a motherless young girl during a period of political unrest in Paris while Inspector Javert relentlessly pursues him for a minor crime.
13) Les misérables
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (371 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against the backdrop of France at a time of civil unrest, this is the story of Jean Valjean, a former convict unable to escape his past life. His future is threatened by his nemesis, the chilling police officer and former prison guard Javert, who is determined to bring him to justice. As revolution ignites on the streets of Paris, Jean Valjean begins an epic journey towards self-acceptance, redemption, and love.
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Quasimodo ventures from his tower to the joyous festival of fools, but the crowd turns cruel and rejects him because of the way he looks. The gypsy Esmeralda rescues him and he finds himself battling to save the people and the city he loves--while reminding us to see people as they are rather than how they appear.
Author
Series
Novels of Victor Hugo volume 5
Pub. Date
1900
Edition
Valjean ed.
Physical Desc
430 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English