Amber Dickson reviewed Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Review of 'Les Misérables' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
It took me exactly 8 years to read, not including the appendices.
1232 pages
English language
Published April 10, 2013 by Penguin Books.
Les misérables
4 stars
(2 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Javert, inspector (fictitious character), fiction
- France, fiction
- Fiction, historical, general
- Valjean, jean (fictitious character), fiction