Les misérables

Description:

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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People: Jean Valjean,  Javert,  Javier Peñalosa

Places: Toulon,  (France),  Paris (France),  Toulon Prison,  Francia,  Paris (Francia),  Fa guo

Times: 19th century,  19de eeu,  1815,  1832,  Siglo XIX,  July Revolution, 1830,  Jin dai