Victor Hugo · 1862 · Historical fiction
Jean Valjean, imprisoned nineteen years for stealing bread, is set on a path toward redemption by a bishop who repays his theft with a gift. Pursued across decades by the implacable Inspector Javert, Valjean builds a new life — until the barricades of 1832 bring everything to a crisis. Hugo's vast panorama of post-Napoleonic France is as much a treatise on mercy as a novel.
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Victor HugoFrench · 1802–1885
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was the dominant figure of French Romantic literature — a novelist, poet, and politician who spent nineteen years in exile rather than live under Napoleon III.
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