Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
15-17A man, a loaf, a city
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo · 1862 · 1463 pages
Jean Valjean leaves prison and spends the rest of the book trying to live as if that sentence is not the whole of him. Around him: a girl, a policeman who will not drop the case, and Paris.
Why we picked it
A giant classic. You can read it in pieces. It is about poverty, mercy, and how a city treats the people at the bottom.
Something to think about
Who in this book is being punished, and who is doing the punishing?
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