![]() ![]() Through a series of events, Jean Valjean discovers that Cosette is being worked like a slave by the unscrupulous Thénardier family and buys her from them, bringing her up as his own daughter. He encounters Fantine, a woman doing everything she can to ensure a good life for her daughter Cosette. He sacrifices himself numerous times for his ethics but continues to live selflessly. He escapes, reinvents himself and goes about trying to live his life as the best person he can be, helping everyone he meets as and when he can. Jean Valjean is a prisoner, put to work on the galleys (prison ships) for stealing a loaf of bread. Les Miserables is a vast, epic novel written in the about what life in France was like for it’s ordinary citizens during the first half of the nineteenth century. There is simply no way to summarise a book that is over 1200 pages long and covers almost every topic that you can think of without it turning into a dissertation ( or a parody review – I could use massively flowery language and insert a big chunk of text about Waterloo somewhere in the middle…) but it’s Christmas and whilst I’m ideas rich I’m time poor ( although that is a suitably massive sentence – stop it Lucinda!) So instead, I’m going to attempt to talk about some of the main points that struck me about the book-that-has-taken-me-a-year-to-read. Could be enjoyed by: Fans of heavy lifting ![]()
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