*Few novels ever swept across the world with such overpowering impact as * Les Misérables. Within 24 hours, the first Paris edition was sold out. In other great cities of the world it was devoured with equal relish.*Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and vio...

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