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.
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- Date
- 1837–1839
- Origin
- England
- Era
- Victorian
- Genre
- Novel
- Canon tier
- Essential core
- Difficulty
- Accessible
- Length
- Long
- Collection
- The Western Canon
Subjects and themes
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An orphan moves through workhouse cruelty and London crime while exposing failures of social institutions.
This work is included on the basis of bloom. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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