Les Miserables: by Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is one of the greatest novels of the 19 th century.In the book he describes and criticizes the social injustice, in France between the fall of Napoleon in 1815 and the failed revolution against King Louis -Philippe in 1832.
Les Miserables is a French phrase that cannot be translated exactly into English.In French it has two meanings;It means people who live in misery, it also means people who live outside society in total poverty.

Hugo's interest in social justice and his concern for these miserables is obvious.Les miserables is a great novel because Hugo was aRomantic at geart and the book is fiiled with moments of great poetry and beauty.it has adepth of vision and inner truth that make it a timeless classic, one of the great works of western literature.

Les miserables hero,Jean Valjean is free at last after nineteen years in prizon.Cold, and hungry he is rejected by everyone he meets.
But Jeans life is changed for ever when he dicovers love.He spends the rest if his life helping people, like himself, who have been victims of poverty and social injustice and adops the little girl named Cosseta whose mother died.