There is hardly a language in the world without more than one translation of Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Misérables. It is difficult to count how many times it has been adapted for film or television, in which languages, or how many times it has been performed on stage. Each time, it attracts millions of people who have already seen or read it many times. From 1863 to the present day, Les Misérables has been read at an accelerating pace, and if the reader were to try rereading it a second, or even a third, he would realize how much he has missed. Because Les Misérables is not just a beautifully crafted and engaging plot. It is a novel of human greatness in the face of the harshest circumstances, a novel of overflowing emotions of love and beauty. As much as it is an exploration of the human psyche, with all its baseness and loftiness, its injustice and justice, its strength and weakness, this novel introduces us to Paris as we've never known it, and to a period of history following the Great French Revolution of 1789 and its most influential repercussions on the image of the modern world. This revolution, despite setbacks, pain, and sacrifices, adhered to the slogans of brotherhood, equality, and freedom. We are introduced to examples of characters who are human models that are difficult to forget. The reader of Les Misérables will never forget what Fantine went through to please her daughter, nor what Jean Valjean went through to transform from a prisoner of hard labor into a man whose heart is filled with goodness and love, nor what Marius and Cosette went through to transform their love into a wonderful and inspiring model... Javert, Thénardier, Gavroche, Éponine, the alphabet friends, names and models with all their dignity, hatred, pride, or weakness, will remain stuck in the mind of the reader of this novel.