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.
- Poverty
- Fiction
- Readers
- Ex-convicts
- History
- Historical fiction
- French fiction
- Orphans
