Paperback
Published March 9, 1934 by Flammarion.
Les misérables
by Victor Hugo
4 stars
(14 reviews)
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.
