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.
846 pages
English language
Published April 8, 2003 by Barnes & Noble Classics.
Victor Hugo: Les misérables (2003, Barnes & Noble Classics)
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59308-066-2
- OCLC Number:
- 53948644
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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.
Subjects
- Ex-convicts -- Fiction.
- Orphans -- Fiction.
- Paris (France) -- Fiction.