The first new Penguin Classics translation in forty years of Victor
Hugo's masterpiece, the subject of The Novel of the Century by David
Bellos--published in a stunning Deluxe edition. Winner of the
French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation's 29th Annual
Translation Prize in Fiction.
The subject of the world's longest-running musical and the award-winning
film, Les Misérables is a genuine literary treasure. Victor Hugo's
tale of injustice, heroism, and love follows the fortunes of Jean
Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind
him, and has been a perennial favorite since it first appeared over 150
years ago. This exciting new translation with Jillian Tamaki's brilliant
cover art will be a gift both to readers who have already fallen for its
timeless story and to new readers discovering it for the first time.
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