Les Miserables Barnes amp Noble Collectible Editions by Victor Hugo Hardback Book 9781435163690

Les Miserables was the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugos career An enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I the novel tells the story of the peasant Jean Valjean unjustly imprisoned and hounded by his nemesis the magnificently realized police detective Javert