Les Misérables (2015, First Avenue Editions, A division of Lerner Publishing Group, Lerner Publishing Group)
1315 pages
English language
Published April 10, 2015 by First Avenue Editions, A division of Lerner Publishing Group, Lerner Publishing Group.
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.
It took me exactly 8 years to read, not including the appendices.
