Les miserables

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This program looks at Victor Hugo's panoramic novel from a modern perspective, focusing on the disenfranchised peoples of three of the world's time-honored democracies: France, England, and the United States. Eminent scholars including Princeton University's Victor Brombert, author of Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel, and Hugo biographer Graham Robb explore the author's many complexities and eccentricities. In addition, interviews with homeless people, ex-convicts, and runaway children provide insights into the character of Jean Valjean, drawing parallels between the cruelities of the 19th century and life today

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