Les Misérables

Victor Hugo · 1862 CE · Novel · French · Victorian

Jean Valjean, nineteen years on the chain gang for stealing bread, is turned by a bishop's mercy and rebuilds himself as a factory owner and mayor under another name. Inspector Javert pursues him across decades and a dying woman's daughter, a Paris convent, and the barricades of 1832. Grace versus justice at epic scale.

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• ↑ The Parable of the Prodigal Son
  Christian scripture · c. 80 CE · Scripture — prefigures this

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