One of Victor Hugo’s most famous books is “Les Misérables.” This is an exquisite book about Jean Valjean, a convict that had been recently released from prison for stealing a loaf of bread because he was hungry. He was a man of middle height, stout and hardy, in the strength of maturing; he might have been forty-six or –seven (3). Having a yellow passport and having to show it to whomever he meets, because …showed first 75 words of 477 total…

…showed last 75 words of 477 total…military hero of the Nepoleonic wars. When he learns the truth of his father’s career, he resembles Javert who had been operated on for a spiritual contact (165). Hugo has been accused of being melodramatic and grandiloquent, and there is some truth in this accusation. But we can forgive every excess in return for scenes such as that in which the street-urchin Gavroche, falls asleep in the belly of statue of an elephant. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**