Les Misérables
Victor Hugo · Romantic / Realist · Novel
Victorian · Novel
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens. An orphan moves through workhouse cruelty and London crime while exposing failures of social institutions.
- Date
- 1837–1839
- Origin
- England
- Era
- Victorian
- Genre
- Novel
- Difficulty
- Accessible
- Length
- Long
- Collection
- The Western Canon
Subjects and themes
Why it matters
An orphan moves through workhouse cruelty and London crime while exposing failures of social institutions.
This work is included in the collection on the basis of bloom. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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