Les MisérablesHugo, Victor
Les Misérables
Jean Valjean tries to build an honest life after prison, but Inspector Javert refuses to let him escape his past. This English translation contains all five volumes of Victor Hugo’s novel.
From the English edition
So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of…
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Project Gutenberg eBook 135 · English
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