Les Misérables A Novel

<b>Few novels ever swept across the world with such overpowering impact as <i>Les Misérables. </i>Within 24 hours, the first Paris edition was sold out. In other great cities of the world it was devoured with equal relish.</b><br><br>Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, <i>Les Misérables </i>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.