464 pages
English language
Published Nov. 12, 2016 by Pan Macmillan.
Victor Hugo, Paul Bailey: Misérables (2016, Pan Macmillan)
464 pages
English language
Published Nov. 12, 2016 by Pan Macmillan.
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.