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A favorite of readers for nearly 150 years, this stirring tale of crime, punishment, justice, and redemption pulses with life. Kindle edition published in 2014, kindle edition published in 2014, paperback published in 2005, 0451521579 paperback. Les miserables is primarily a great humanitarian work that encourages compassion and hope in the face of adversity and injustice. While the fictional aspects may seem to be an afterthought, hugos craft is. Les miserables is a masterful detective story, a comic and tragic story of romance and revolution and, ultimately. Les miserables annotated literary classics collection. I was lucky enough to see the musical on broadway with colm wilkinson in the lead role. Vibrant and readable, idiomatic and well suited to a long narrative, julie rose s new translation of les miserables is closer to the captivating tone hugo would have struck for his own contemporaries. Les miserables vintage classics kindle edition by hugo. Les miserables by victor hugo penguin random house canada.