Outcasts (in 2 books) (set). Hugo V.

The epic novel by Victor Hugo “The outcasts” (1862) is the result of the twenty-year work of the writer, an extensive canvas, without which it is impossible to imagine the spiritual history of the 19th century. This work, especially well -accepted and participated on Russian soil, since the idea of ​​“restoring the deceased person, which was stained with an unfair of circumstances, stagnation of centuries and public prejudices” (F. M. Dostoevsky) found and continues to find a hot response in the hearts of the Russians. readers. The names of the heroes of the novel - Jean Valzhan, Kozetta, Gavrosh - have long become household, and the tempting combination of grotesque and romance, sentimentalism and realism, along with a tense, exciting plot on the eternal theme of the “struggle of good and evil,” led to the frequent appeal of world cinema.