{"product_id":"la-chute-from-victor-hugos-les-miserables-heaths-modern-language-series","title":"La Chute by Victor Hugo (from Les Misérables) | Heath's Modern Language Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eLa Chute, an excerpt from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, published by D. C. Heath and Company, Boston, 1892. Part of Heath's Modern Language Series. Condition is very good, presenting in incredible shape for a book over 130 years old. Please see photos for full details. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCondition notes: there is a sticker and a pen mark on the inside cover page, noted for transparency. The remainder of the book is in outstanding condition with only very slight wear, a truly remarkable state of preservation for a volume of this age. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVictor Hugo needs little introduction. The author of Notre-Dame de Paris and Les Misérables, he stands as one of the most celebrated and widely read writers in the history of world literature, and Les Misérables in particular has never been out of print since its first publication in 1862, adapted countless times for stage and screen and regarded as one of the defining works of the 19th century. La Chute, the section excerpted here, is among the most dramatically powerful passages in the novel, and its selection for an advanced French language curriculum speaks to both its literary richness and its enduring relevance as a teaching text. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eD. C. Heath and Company was founded in Boston in 1885 by Daniel Collamore Heath, who had previously co-founded the predecessor firm Ginn and Heath before striking out independently. The company quickly ranked among the leading school-book publishing houses in America, with offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, Atlanta, and London, an extraordinary reach for an educational publisher of the era. Heath's Modern Language Series was one of its flagship curriculum offerings, bringing the great works of European literature into American classrooms in their original languages, and selecting a passage from Hugo's Les Misérables for the series reflects the enormous prestige the novel already commanded by the 1890s. D. C. Heath was later acquired by Houghton Mifflin in 1995, cementing its place in the lineage of American educational publishing history. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wonderful and genuinely rare addition for collectors of Victor Hugo editions, French Romantic literature, 19th century American educational publishing, or Heath's Modern Language Series specifically. A copy in this condition from 1892 is an exceptionally fine find.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67738229834093,"sku":null,"price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1019\/4645\/8477\/files\/IMG_1110.HEIC-Edited.png?v=1792507225","url":"https:\/\/wickandfolio.com\/products\/la-chute-from-victor-hugos-les-miserables-heaths-modern-language-series","provider":"Wick \u0026 Folio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}