by Victor Hugo · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070429882
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«Claude Gueux» is the short novel by Victor Hugo, published by Folio in paperback (224 pages, in French).
Claude Gueux, a worker who steals bread to feed his family, is sentenced to prison. In jail he forms a close friendship with another inmate and, when they are separated, he commits a violent act. The work denounces the social injustice and the prison system of its time, and raises how the environment can push a person to the extreme.
French edition from the Folio Plus Classiques collection, «19e siècle» series, with complete text, dossier by Olivier Decroix and image reading by Valérie Lagier. Includes «La chute», a text related to Les Misérables.
Annotated edition with didactic material, recommended for secondary school students and for readers who want to analyse in depth a classic by Victor Hugo.
French novelist, poet and dramatist, leading figure of Romanticism and author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
