num_pages: 112
description: Jean Valjean is free at last after nineteen years in prison. Cold and hungry, he is rejected by everyone he meets. But Jean’s life is changed forever when he discovers love. He spends the rest of his life helping people, like himself, who have been victims of poverty and social injustice – ‘les misérables’.
language: English
title: Les Misérables
titlecomplete: Les Misérables
characters: Bossuet, Toussaint, Grantaire, Combeferre, Jean Valjean, Azelma, Fauchelevent, Marius Pontmercy, M. & Mme. Thénardier, Bishop Myriel, Champmathieu, Cosette, Javert, Felix Tholomyès, Fantine, Enjolras, Mademoiselle Gillenorman, Bahorel, Éponine, Gavroche
genres: Fiction, Historical, France, French Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 780427
places: Paris, France, Digne, Montreuil
awards: awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: French-American Foundation Translation Prize
category: Fiction (Christine Donougher)
publisher: Penguin