num_pages: 144
description: From its informative chronology of Hugo's life and work and its excellent historical overview of Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic France, through its closing meditation on Hugo's vision of utopian society, Katherine M. Grossman's Les Conversion, Revolution, Redemption is a model examination of a literary masterwork. At the heart of Grossman's close readings of several key sections of the novel is an interpretation of its protagonist, Jean Valjean, an Everyman embodying the hopes of oppressed people everywhere.
language: English
title: Les Miserables: Conversion, Revolution, Redemption
titlecomplete: Les Miserables: Conversion, Revolution, Redemption (Twayne's Masterwork Studies, 160)
genres: Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 22
series: Twayne's Masterwork Studies
publisher: Twayne Pub