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Les miserables hugo6/30/2023 He serves 19 years on the chain gang for stealing bread to feed his starving sister and her children and is embittered by years of hardship. The book’s main character Jean Valjean is a man to whom life has not been kind. We give you here a very short synopsis of Les Misérables – it’s a long book with lots of twists and turns, subplots and lengthy forays on religion, politics, and society. The novel is in five volumes and is one of the longest novels ever written, 1900 pages in the French version,and contains the longest sentence ever written – 800 words. Now Les Misèrables is about to become successful with a whole new raft of fans as its has been made into a Hollywood blockbuster. The name Les Misèrables means The Unfortunate Ones or The Wretched. It is a tale of woe and angst, love, loss and redemption set in France in the early 1800s against a backdrop of revolutionary fervour. When Victor Hugo published Les Misèrables in 1862 it too became a huge hit with the public. Les Miserables Summary: Victor Hugo achieved great fame in France for his story The Hunchback of Notre Dame which he published in 1831 and which was an instant triumph.
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