TY - BOOK AU - Hugo,Victor AU - Hapgood,Isabel Florence TI - Les Misérables AV - PQ PY - 2008/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Historical fiction KW - Orphans -- Fiction KW - Paris (France) -- Fiction KW - Epic literature KW - Ex-convicts -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables; Release date is 2008-06-22; Judith Boss and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo is a French epic historical novel published in 1862. Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, it follows ex-convict Jean Valjean's struggle for redemption. The novel explores the nature of law and grace, examining themes of justice, poverty, and love through the lives of interconnected characters in nineteenth-century France. Considered one of the greatest novels of its century, it depicts society's most downtrodden members and their fight for dignity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/135 ER -