Les Misérables
Written in exile; Valjean's story made social misery a Europe-wide cause
- Author
- Victor Hugo
- Style
- Romanticism — Feeling and the elements over reason: the lone hero, storm, ruins and the national past
- Century
- 19th century
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- 1857 The Gleaners — Jean-François Millet · Realism · Barbizon
- 1856–1859 One Hundred Famous Views of Edo — Utagawa Hiroshige · Ukiyo-e · Edo (Tokyo)
- 1856 Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert · Realism · Croisset, near Rouen
- 1870–1873 Barge Haulers on the Volga — Ilya Repin · Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers) · Saint Petersburg
- 1849–1850 A Burial at Ornans — Gustave Courbet · Realism · Ornans
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