It has been said that Victor Hugo has a street named after him in virtually every town in France. A major reason for the singular celebrity of this most popular and versatile of the great French writers is Les Misérables (1862). 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.

Les Misérables is at once a tense thriller that contains one of the most compelling chase scenes in all literature, an epic portrayal of the nineteenth-century French citizenry, and a vital drama?highly particularized and poetic in its rendition but universal in its implications?of the redemption of one human being.

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Médias	Livres Hardcover Book (Livre avec dos et couverture rigide)
Validé	31 mars 1998
ISBN13	9780375403170
Éditeurs	Everyman's Library
Pages	1480
Dimensions	137 × 208 × 56 mm · 1,04 kg
Langue et grammaire	English
Contributeur	Charles E. Wilbour
Contributeur	Peter Washington

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