Les Miserables Summary
Victor Hugo

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Victor Hugo, the son of a general in Napoleon's empire, was born in 1802 in Besancon, France. Although raised by his mother to be a royalist, Hugo's inclination to rep... Read more

When Victor Hugo died in 1885 at the age of eighty-three, one million mourners gathered in the streets of Paris to see his corpse borne to the Pantheon. Buried with honors usually reserved for heads o... Read more

Victor Hugo, one of France's most prolific nineteenth-century authors, wrote novels, poems, and dramatic works. His career as a playwright began in 1816 and ended almost sixty years later. The dramas ... Read more

Everyone goes throughout there lives in a certain social standing. Whether it may be they're considered to me rich, or poor, or popular, or nerdy. Pretty much as you go through out life you place your... Read more

Although he was first a convict, Jean Valjean eventually became a moral person. Victor Hugo portrayed Valjean in Les Misérables as someone his readers should look up to. At the end of the book,... Read more

First of all, the story starts with a character named Jean Val jean. He is a victim of harsh penal laws of the nineteenth century. In those days, penal laws are more like laws in ancient civiliz... Read more

Les Miséables is the story of Jean Valjean as he struggles to erase the stain that being a convict has left on his life, but the yellow passport signifying he is an ex-convict is like a brand tha... Read more

Les Misérables is a novel of many components. It has innumerable themes that can be applied to life, although it is a fictional novel. It is a novel which exposes the life of the poor, and the ig... Read more

"After he had fully determined that the young man was at the bottom of this state of affairs, and that it all came from him, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had labored so much upon... Read more

Throughout history, there have been numerous debates about the presence of a Supreme Being or many supreme beings, for that matter. The debates have led to wars, unaccountable numbers of deaths, fami... Read more

In Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, Jean Valjean strives to redeem himself while Javert strives to enforce justice. The goals of these two men, one who was formerly a convict and one is a police office... Read more