{"product_id":"the-mysteries-of-paris-isbn-9780143107125","title":"The Mysteries of Paris","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first new translation in over a century of the brilliant epic novel that inspired \u003ci\u003eLes Misérables\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Sensational, engrossing, and heartbreaking, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMysteries of Paris\u003c\/i\u003e is doubtless one of the most entertaining and influential works to emerge from the nineteenth century. It was one of France’s first serial novels, and for sixteen months, Parisians rushed in droves to the newsstands each week for the latest installment. Eugène Sue’s intricate melodrama unfolds around a Paris where, despite the gulf between them, the fortunes of the rich and poor are inextricably tangled. The suspenseful story of Rodolphe, a magnetic hero of noble heart and shadowy origins, was spun out over 150 issues—garnering wild popularity, influencing political change, and inspiring a raft of successors, including \u003ci\u003eLes Misérables\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Count of Monte Cristo\u003c\/i\u003e. At long last, this lively translation makes the riveting drama of Sue’s classic available to a new century of readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\"Sue’s \u003ci\u003eThe Mysteries of Paris \u003c\/i\u003enot only influenced \u003ci\u003eLes Miserables\u003c\/i\u003e, it also gave rise to a subgenre of Gothicky novels about the dark underside of big cities, including London, New Orleans and Philadelphia (George Lippard’s notorious \u003ci\u003eThe Quaker City\u003c\/i\u003e). Aristocrats with secrets, a prostitute with a heart of gold, criminals nicknamed the Schoolmaster and the She-Wolf, an evil lawyer, thwarted love, blackmail and conspiracy — this is a sprawling novel that packs in everything and then adds more.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“One might not think that a gargantuan Parisian novel, published in 150 newspaper episodes in the middle of the 19th century, would fill anyone's 21st-century bill as an absolute ripsnorter - but Eugène Sue's \u003ci\u003eThe Mysteries of Paris\u003c\/i\u003e does exactly that… Few books are more earnest, and few read so fresh, so gloriously now. Part of that freshness comes down to the laurel-winning translation by Carolyn Betensky and Jonathan Loesberg… Even a bibliographic-centric Schoolmaster will not find for you a better novel in this annum, or most others.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e-The Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e“[Sue] remains a literary hero to both dissidents and boulevardiers. Despite his relative obscurity outside France, this new translation of what is undoubtedly his crowning literary achievement should go some way to introducing the great serialist to the English-speaking world.”\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eEugène Sue\u003c\/b\u003e (1804–1857) was a French novelist. In addition to \u003ci\u003eThe Mysteries of Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, his works include \u003ci\u003eThe Wandering Jew\u003c\/i\u003e, an anticlerical melodrama,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Mysteries of the People\u003c\/i\u003e, a fictionalized history of the working classes throughout French history. In 1850, Sue won election to the National Assembly as a Socialist delegate.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarolyn Betensky\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of English at the University of Rhode Island.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Loesberg\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of literature at American University.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor emeritus at Yale and currently teaches at Princeton. His essays and reviews have appeared in in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301324935397,"sku":"NP9780143107125","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143107125.jpg?v=1767740602","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-mysteries-of-paris-isbn-9780143107125","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}