Les Misérables: Upper Middle Lower (Foreign Literature Masterpiece Series)

Hugo's life almost experienced the turbulent changes of French society in the 19th century. His creative process lasted more than sixty years, almost spanning the entire process of French modernization. Hugo wrote a lot in his life. He was born into a family of military officers. Hugo was not born among the working people, and he did not even have any important social relations with the working class. His own experience and path were also far removed from those of the lower class. What was the force that pushed him to write "Les Misérables", a masterpiece about the suffering of the lower class people? We have to admit that this strength and ideological foundation are the humanitarian ideas he has always adhered to. In this novel, Hugo depicts the historical aspect from Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo to the popular uprising against the July Monarchy, and draws a large-scale picture of social and political life. The book describes the tragic experiences of the three central characters: the fugitive Jean Valjean, the woman Fantine living on the street, and her daughter Cosette, and angrily condemns and accuses the reasons for all these unreasonable and unfair phenomena.