num_pages: 334
description: Few novels ever swept across the world with such overpowering impact as Les Misérables. Within 24 hours, the first Paris edition was sold out. In other great cities of the world it was devoured with equal relish.Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Misérables is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.
language: English
title: Les Misérables
titlecomplete: Les Misérables
characters: Combeferre, Mademoiselle Gillenorman, Cosette, Bossuet, Fantine, Fauchelevent, Javert, Toussaint, Gavroche, Marius Pontmercy, Grantaire, Enjolras, Bahorel, Champmathieu, M. & Mme. Thénardier, Éponine, Jean Valjean, Felix Tholomyès, Azelma, Bishop Myriel
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, French Literature, Novels, Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 780419
places: Paris, Digne, Montreuil, France
awards: awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: French-American Foundation Translation Prize
category: Fiction (Christine Donougher)
publisher: Ballantine Books