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24 books recommended for fans of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, tied together by themes of Literary Criticism, Classics, Literary, and Historical.

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Notre-Dame de Paris — Victor Hugo

Notre-Dame de Paris

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Bronte

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

The Wild Ass’s Skin — Honoré de Balzac

The Wild Ass’s Skin

Honoré de Balzac

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

King Arthur and His Knights Selected Tales — Sir Thomas Malory

King Arthur and His Knights Selected Tales — Sir Thomas Malory

SIR THOMAS. MALORY

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

Collins Classics – Dubliners — James Joyce

Collins Classics – Dubliners

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

The Man in the Iron Mask — Alexandre Dumas

The Man in the Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

Family Happiness Stories — Leo Tolstoy

Family Happiness Stories

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

Adolphe — Benjamin Constant

Benjamin Constant

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

Ruth — Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

Love — Stendhal

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

The Story of an African Farm — Olive Schreiner

The Story of an African Farm

Olive Schreiner

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

Bleak House — Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

Anna Karenina — graf Leo Tolstoy

graf Leo Tolstoy

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

The Trumpet-major — Thomas Hardy

The Trumpet-major

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

Sentimental Education — Gustave Flaubert

Sentimental Education

Gustave Flaubert

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

Red Strangers — Elspeth Huxley

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

The Woman in White — Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

The Storm — Daniel Defoe

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

Emma — Jane Austen

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

The Decameron — Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

Themes: Literary Criticism • Classics • Literary

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