Les Misérables
Book · 1862 · 520 pages
- Synopsis
In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert--Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.
- Synopsis
In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert--Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.
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- Original title
- Les Misérables
- Year
- 1862
- Pages
- 520
- Genres
- History
- Themes
- Inequality, Police, Politics, Prison, Writers
- Author
- Victor Hugo