Les Miserables (Penguin Popular Classics) Book

This book features many of the characters who are well-known: Valjean the criminal trying to escape his reputation; Javert the police agent trailing him; the unfortunate Fantine and her daughter Cosette; the rascally Thenardier; and above all the splendid street urchin Gavroche. Among the unforgettable descriptions are those of the Paris sewers the battle of Waterloo and the fighting at the barricades during the July Revolution. There are few more complete or more vivid pictures of France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. "Les Miserables" is at once a thrilling narrative and a social document embracing a wider field than any other novel of its time. This edition is an abridgment of Norman Denny's translation.

Many of the characters are well-known: Valjean, the criminal trying to escape his reputation; Javert, the police agent trailing him; the unfortunate Fantine and her daughter, Cosette; the rascally Thenardier; and above all the splendid street urchin, Gavroche.