Not only this, but I can say that not one page of this giant bored me.Īt the end of the day you're another day olderĪnd that's all you can say for the life of the poor and he provides food for thought on commonly-held ideas about the nature of law, justice, love, religion and politics. Hugo takes the reader on a 1200+ page journey around France and into the lives of criminals, prostitutes, those wasting away under the strain of poverty.
It is a story about the lowest and darkest parts of French society in the first half of the nineteenth century. In fact, it is the very opposite of fluffy happiness. So, as you will have concluded, this is not a happy book.
Les Misérables can be translated from the French into "The Miserable Ones", "The Wretched", "The Poor Ones", "The Wretched Poor" or "The Victims".
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