Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

Oct 2012 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

One of the greatest epic novels in history, Les Misérables is the moving story of Jean Valjean’s struggle for redemption and his lifelong pursuit by Javert, a police detective determined to return Valjean to chains. Always one step ahead of Javert, Valjean encounters the tragic Fantine, and ultimately rescues Fantine’s daughter, Cosette, from her wretched life with the Thénadiers, treating the child as his own as she comes of age in pre-revolutionary Paris.

This special edition of Les Misérables also contains a review from the July 1862 issue of The Atlantic Monthly.

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Ratings and reviews

I love Les mis because she's true life and terror and there is a beautiful girls oh my ill forgot I'll watch again les mis 😳😳😳

One of the glowing classic in history I didn't read it's real copy. I just read the Malayalam translation, but I still loving it.. because there are so many Jean Val Jeans in our society.. This marvelous book always makes remember them. Centuries had gone...but hugo still there in us.. PROUD OF THE GOD OF LITERATURE, HUGO

If you enjoy reading period pieces, this is the best by far, enjoyed every minute.

About the author

The best-known of the French Romantic writers, Victor Hugo was a poet, novelist, dramatist, and political critic. Hugo was an avid supporter of French republicanism and advocate for social and political equality, themes that reflect most strongly in his works Les Misérables, Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), and Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (The Last Day of a Condemned Man). Hugo’s literary works were successful from the outset, earning him a pension from Louis XVIII and membership in the prestigious Académie française, and influencing the work of literary figures such as Albert Camus, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Elevated to the peerage by King Louis-Philippe, Hugo played an active role in French politics through the 1848 Revolution and into the Second and Third Republics. Hugo died in 1885, revered not only for his influence on French literature, but also for his role in shaping French democracy. He is buried in the Panthéon alongside Alexandre Dumas and Émile Zola.