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Les Miserables (Hardcover)
Victor Hugo; Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood
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R1,375
Discovery Miles 13 750
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Les Miserables (Paperback)
Victor Hugo; Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood
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R1,153
R1,079
Discovery Miles 10 790
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Les Miserables (Hardcover)
Victor Hugo; Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood; Introduction by Ken Mondschein
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R488
Discovery Miles 4 880
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"The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes
the darkness." "So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth,
books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use,"
says Victor Hugo in the preface of his famous novel. Certainly, Les
Miserables is French history recounted through the personal stories
of its main characters. The tale offers philosophical insight on
the good deeds that can happen even amidst ignorance and poverty.
This handsome leather-bound volume is a beautiful addition to any
classic literature library with specially designed endpapers,
gilded edges, and a ribbon bookmark so you will never lose your
place.
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Dead Souls (Paperback)
Nikolai Gogol; Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood; Introduction by Anthony Briggs; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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R133
R126
Discovery Miles 1 260
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With an Introduction by Anthony Briggs. Translated by Isabel F.
Hapgood. Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he
is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the
local estates buying up 'dead souls'. These are the papers relating
to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the
record and still attract a tax demand. Chichikov is willing to
relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a
song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a
huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a
nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will
rumble him? Does this narrative contain a deeper message about
Russia itself or the spiritual health of humanity? There is much
interest and some suspense in considering these issues, but the
real pleasure of this story lies elsewhere. It is an enjoyable
comic romp through a retarded part of a backward country, a
picaresque series of grotesque portraits, situations and
conversations described with Gogolian humour based mainly on
hyperbole. This is, quite simply, the funniest book in the Russian
language before the twentieth century.
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Smoke (Paperback)
Isabel F. Hapgood
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R644
Discovery Miles 6 440
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.
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