1781 pages
French language
Published 1960 by Librairi Gallimard.
Les misérables
Bibliothèque de la Pléiade -- 85
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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.