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Les Misérables

By Victor Hugo

First published 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.

Published
1862
Pages
1,481
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Jean Valjean · Javert · Javier Peñalosa

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