Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo · 1862
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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.
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