Rank 47 of 100
Les Misérables
Also known as Les Miserables
Synopsis
Jean Valjean leaves prison after nineteen years for stealing bread, and a bishop’s mercy gives him a chance to become someone else. Hugo sets a policeman who believes only in the law on his trail, and widens the chase until it includes sewers, barricades, and a Paris of people the century would rather not count.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1862
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Historical, Literary
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 19th century
- Movement
- Romantic
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 1,463 pages
- Reported copies
- Tens of millions of copies
- Kind
- Fiction