About Author
Part 1. A Just Man
Part 2. The Fall
Part 3. In the Year 1817
Part 4. To Confide Is Sometimes to Deliver into a Person's Power
Part 5. The Descent
Part 6. Javert
Part 7. The Champmathieu Affair
Part 8. A Counter-Blow
Part 9. Waterloo
Part 10. The Ship Orion
Part 11. Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman
Part 12. The Gorbeau Hovel
Part 13. For a Black Hunt, A Mute Pack
Part 14. Le Petit-Picpus
Part 15. Parenthesis
Part 16. Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them
Part 17. Paris Studied in its Atom
Part 18. The Great Bourgeois
Part 19. The Grandfather and the Grandson
Part 20. The Friends of the ABC
Part 21. The Excellence of Misfortune
Part 22. The Conjunction of Two Stars
Part 23. Patron Minette
Part 24. The Wicked Poor Man
Part 25. A Few Pages of History
Part 26. Eponine
Part 27. The House in the Rue Plumet
Part 28. Succor From Below May Turn Out to Be Succor From on High
Part 29. The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning
Part 30. Little Gavroche
Part 31. Slang
Part 32. Enchantments and Desolations
Part 33. Whither Are They Going ?
Part 34. The 5th of June, 1832
Part 35. The Atom Fraternizes With the Hurricane
Part 36. Corinthe
Part 37. Marius Enters the Shadow
Part 38. The Grandeur of Despair
Part 39. The Rue de l'Homme Armé
Part 40. The War Between Four Walls
Part 41. The Intestine of the Leviathan
Part 42. Mud But the Soul
Part 43. Javert Derailed
Part 44. Grandson and Grandfather
Les Miserables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title. However, several alternatives have been used, including The Miserables, The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, The Victims and The Dispossessed.
Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption. Les Miserables examining the nature of law and grace, the novel elaborates upon the history of France, the architecture and urban design of Paris, politics, moral philosophy, antimonarchism, justice, religion, and the types and nature of romantic and familial love.
Les Misérables has been popularized through numerous adaptations for the stage, television, and film, including a musical and a film adaptation of that musical. The appearance of the Miserables was highly anticipated and advertised. Critical reactions were diverse, but most of them were negative. Commercially, the work was a great success globally. A monumental classic and one of the most widely read novels in history, Les Miserables portrays the epic struggle between good and evil in the soul of one man: Jean Valjean.
In a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, the ex-convict struggles to renew his life and reaffirm his humanity. But he is haunted, both by his seemingly inescapable past and the malignant shadow of the infamous police detective Javert. Rich in detail, packed with adventure, and filled with the sweep of human passions, Les Misérables is more than a literary masterpieceit remains a powerful social document. Dedicated to the poor, the oppressed, and the misunderstood, this captivating novel captures the impossible societal layersand the essence of lifeas it truly existed in nineteenth-century France.
"The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only." "To love another person is to see the face of God." "It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live." "Not being heard is no reason for silence." Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables