Les Miserables
by Victor Hugo
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell & co 1887
ISBN/ASIN: 0451525264
Number of pages: 670
Description:
Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES 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.
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