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Les Misérables, Vol. 3 of 3 (Classic Reprint)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Forgotten Books
Publication date February 11, 2018
Pages 420
Binding Paperback
ISBN-13 9780243314164
ISBN-10 0243314167
Dimensions 0.86 by 5 by 9 in.
Weight 1.24 lbs.
Original list price $16.57
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Excerpt from Les Misérables, Vol. 3 of 3

Pigritia is a terrible word, for it engenders a world, la pégre, for which read - robbery; and a Hades, la pefgrenne, for which read - hunger. Hence indolence is a mother, and has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger. Where are we at this moment? In slang What is slang? It is at once the nation and the idiom, it is robbery in its two species, people and lan guage. Four-and-thirty years ago, when the narrator of this grave and sombre history introduced into the middle of a work written with the same Object as this one* a robber Speaking slang, there was amazement and clamour. Why! What! Slang! Why, it is frightful, it is the language of the chain-gang, of hulks and prisons, of everything that is the most abomin able in society, &c. &c. &c. We could never understand objections of this nature. Since that period two powerful ro mance-writers, of whom one was a profound observer of hu manity, the other an intrepid friend of the people, Balzac and Eugene Sue, having made bandits talk in their natural tongue, as the author of Le dernier J our d'un Condamné did in 1828, the same Objections were raised, and people repeated.

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