Les Misérables. Volume 1

"Les Misérables. Volume 1" is the first part of the epic novel by the great French classic Victor Hugo (1802-1885). The novel centres around the person of one of the most high-hearted characters of the novel, Jean Valjean. Sentenced to galleys for stealing bread for his widowed sister's children, he accuses mankind of cruelty and indifference. On being given shelter in the house of the kind pastor...