Les Misérables
About this book
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
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- barricade
- bread
- chang pian xiao shuo
- classic literature
- continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- criminals
- epic fiction
- ex-convicts
- ex-détenus
- ficción
- fiction
- fiction, fantasy, epic
- fiction, political
- franse fiksie
- franse taal
- freedom
- french fiction
- french language
- french language materials
- french literature
- historical fiction
- history
- huérfanos
- leesboeke
- literature and fiction (general)
- manners and customs
- mœurs et coutumes
- music, instruction and study
- open library staff picks
- orphans
- police
- police, fiction
- policía
- politics and government
- poverty
- presos
- prison
- prisoners
- readers
- redemption
- rescue work, fiction
- romance literature
- romans, nouvelles
- social conditions
- social life and customs
- stuttering
- suo xie
- unterschicht
- vida social y costumbres