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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo
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Justice, pursuit, and one man’s redemption

Victor Hugo’s 1862 classic follows Jean Valjean after his unjust imprisonment. Hounded by police detective Javert, he struggles against destiny and toward redemption. A tense thriller and sweeping portrait of nineteenth-century French society.

  • French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction (Christine Donougher) (2015)
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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo
Regular price RM41.00 MYR
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ISBN: 9780375403170
Author: Victor Hugo
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Date of Publication: 1998-03-31
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 4.22
(rated by 868837 readers)

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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.
 

Justice, pursuit, and one man’s redemption

Victor Hugo’s 1862 classic follows Jean Valjean after his unjust imprisonment. Hounded by police detective Javert, he struggles against destiny and toward redemption. A tense thriller and sweeping portrait of nineteenth-century French society.

  • French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction (Christine Donougher) (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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