4-606: Val Jean may refer to: Jean Val Jean , a 1935 English-language retelling of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables by Solomon Cleaver Jean Valjean , the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables Val Jean , the Maquis starship featured in Star Trek: Voyager ' s pilot episode " Caretaker " Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
8-516: Is a 1935 novel by Solomon Cleaver . It is a much abbreviated retelling in English of Victor Hugo 's 1862 novel Les Misérables . According to the publisher's preface, around the turn of the 20th century, Cleaver, a young minister from Winnipeg , read through Les Misérables and often retold it in his own words. His oral adaptation proved so popular that he was persuaded to write it down and publish it. The resulting novel, titled Jean Val Jean ,
12-481: Is less than one-tenth the length of and uses much simpler language than the original. It remains popular, especially among young readers who do not have the patience or reading skills for Hugo's five-volume original. Rudy Wiebe , a Canadian author and professor of English, described it as "a sanitized text approved for Canadian children by both the Catholic and public school boards", in which Hugo's lengthy history of
16-464: The title Val Jean . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Val_Jean&oldid=430121765 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jean Val Jean Jean Val Jean
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