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When Victor Hugo published "Les Misérables" in 1862 it became a huge hit with the public, so it is considered to be his greatest work and one of the jewels of French literature. It is a tale of woe and angst, love, loss and redemption set in France in the early 1800s against a backdrop of revolutionary fervour. The name "Les Misérables" means The Unfortunate Ones or The Wretched.
The novel is in five volumes and is one of the longest novels ever written, 1900 pages in the French version,and contains the longest sentence ever written – 800 words.
Set in the post-Napoleonic era just after the French Revolution, "Les Misérables" is the story of Jean Valjean, a convict, who has just been released from prison after serving 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread. Influenced by the bishop to begin a new life, Jean assumes a new name and moves to a new location where he becomes a respected citizen and makes a fortune in manufacturing. The police inspector, Javert, is suspicious of him, but it is not until Jean’s conscience prods him to reveal his true identity that he is forced to flee.
The rest of the novel is set in Paris, where Jean changes residences frequently and assumes a number of identities in order to avoid arrest. Fulfilling a promise to her dying mother Fantine, he rescues a young girl named Cosette from the evil Thénardier family and becomes her guardian. They spend many years in a convent where Cosette grows into a beautiful young lady. Eventually, Jean leaves this safe haven so that Cosette may have a more normal life.
Cosette falls in love with Marius, a young lawyer, who joins a band of revolutionists at a barricade. Unbeknown to Marius, Jean is also at the barricade...
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics, Historical Fiction
Length64 hrs 10 mins
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Publish dateAug 11, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1VOLUME 1. FANTINE
2Preface
3BOOK FIRST. A JUST MAN
4Chapter 1. M. Myriel
5Chapter 2. M. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome
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6Chapter 3. A Hard Bishopric For A Good Bishop
7Chapter 4. Works Corresponding To Words
8Chapter 5. Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long
9Chapter 6. Who Guarded His House For Him
10Chapter 7. Cravatte
11Chapter 8. Philosophy After Drinking
12Chapter 9. The Brother As Depicted By The Sister
13Chapter 10. The Bishop In The Presence Of An Unknown Light
14Chapter 11. A Restriction
15Chapter 12. The Solitude Of Monseigneur Welcome
16Chapter 13. What He Believed
17Chapter 14. What He Thought
18BOOK SECOND. THE FALL
19Chapter 1. The Evening Of A Day Of Walking
20Chapter 2. Prudence Counselled To Wisdom
21Chapter 3. The Heroism Of Passive Obedience
22Chapter 4. Details Concerning The Cheese-Dairies Of Pontarlier
23Chapter 5. Tranquillity
24Chapter 6. Jean Valjean
25Chapter 7. The Interior Of Despair
26Chapter 8. Billows And Shadows
27Chapter 9. New Troubles
28Chapter 10. The Man Aroused
29Chapter 11. What He Does
30Chapter 12. The Bishop Works
31Chapter 13. Little Gervais
32BOOK THIRD. IN THE YEAR 1817
33Chapter 1. The Year 1817
34Chapter 2. A Double Quartette
35Chapter 3. Four And Four
36Chapter 4. Tholomyes Is So Merry That He Sings A Spanish Ditty
37Chapter 5. At Bombarda's
38Chapter 6. A Chapter In Which They Adore Each Other
39Chapter 7. The Wisdom Of Tholomyes
40Chapter 8. The Death Of A Horse
41Chapter 9. A Merry End To Mirth
42BOOK FOURTH. TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER
43Chapter 1. One Mother Meets Another Mother
44Chapter 2. First Sketch Of Two Unprepossessing Figures
45Chapter 3. The Lark
46BOOK FIFTH. THE DESCENT
47Chapter 1. The History Of A Progress In Black Glass Trinkets
48Chapter 2. Madeleine
49Chapter 3. Sums Deposited With Laffitte
50Chapter 4. M. Madeleine In Mourning
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