Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
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Les Miserables

Author: Victor Hugo

Narrator: Unknown

Unabridged: 9 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: Not Available

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

Victor Hugo's Les Misrables is a novel which tells the story of ex-convict Jean Valjean, his struggles and eventual redemption. It's hailed by many critics as not just Victor Hugo's finest work but also one of the best French novels of all time.

Like most epic novels written in the 19th century, the storyline of Les Misrables spans through several decades beginning in the early 1800s and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris. The events related to the lives of the central characters in the novel are also tied to the great historical events of the time from the French Revolution to the June Rebellion.

About Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France.

In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic output and only secondarily on his novels. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Legende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. In the English-speaking world, his best-known works are the novels Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. His other novels include The Last Days of a Condemned Man, Toilers of the Sea, and The Man Who Laughs.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Tammi on 2025-08-13 14:58:24

The narration leaves a bit to be desired. I could not finish it.