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.
978 pages
Finnish language
Published Nov. 19, 1998
Kurjat
by Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo: Kurjat (Finnish language, 1998)
- ISBN:
- 978-951-0-23301-6
- Goodreads:
- 22778300
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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.
