Les misérables
by Victor Hugo
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Story of Jean Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector Javert who dedicates his life to recapturing him.
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Originally published: 1987.
"The only complete and unabridged paperback edition"--Cover.
"Basis of the magnificent theater musical with a new afterword by Chris Bohjalian"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1467-1468).
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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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