Les Miserables

Jean Valjean has endured nineteen years in jail for stealing bread. Fantine is an unwed mother who resorted to prostitution in order to support her daughter. Marius is a young revolutionary who falls in love with Fantine''s daughter, Cosette. These four characters'' lives intersect in an expansive novel that explores issues of class, equality, education, and injustice in nineteenth-century France....