Les Misérables

Excerpt

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.

Literary origin

Country whose literature this title belongs to, based on author tradition —not necessarily where the story is set.

• France

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