Thursday, April 8, 2010

April -- Annell's Pick

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: Book Cover

Les Miserables
by Victor Hugo

Synopsis
Trying to forget his past and live an honest life, escaped convict Jean Valjean risks his freedom to take care of a motherless young girl during a period of political unrest in Paris.




Victor Hugo (1802-1885), novelist, poet, and dramatist, is one of the most important of French Romantic writers. Among his best-known works are The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1831) and Les Misérables(1862).

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