Les Misérables
By: Victor Hugo ; translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood
Contributors: Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928, translator
Publisher: Project Gutenberg
Published: 2008
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781350000001
Subjects: French literature; Historical fiction; Electronic books; Orphans; Ex-convicts; Fiction
Description: Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Miserables is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told. It is a novel peopled by colourful characters from the nineteenth-century Parisian underworld; the street children, the prostitutes and the criminals. In telling the story of escaped convict Jean Valjean, and his efforts to reform his ways and care for the little orphan girl he rescues from a life of cruelty, Victor Hugo drew attention to the plight of the poor and oppressed. Les Miserables is a masterful detective story, a comic and tragic story of romance and revolution and, ultimately, a tale of redemption and hope.