Les Misérables - Author Victor Hugo

Jean Valjean... the criminal trying to escape his reputation... Javert the police agent who is trying to trail him.... and then the unfortunate Fantine and her daughter Cosette.

This book brings out all the vivid pictures of France at the beginning of the 19th Century. The Paris sewers, the battle of Waterloo and the fighting at the barracades during the July revolution.

It is at one a thrilling and social narrative and a social document embracing a wider field than any other novel of its time...