Les Misérables

Author's name: Victor Hugo

Customs and laws create a social condition, a kind of human hell. As long as indifference and poverty exist on earth, books like this one will always be necessary, especially for people living outside of society.

Victor Hugo on Les Misérables

The best French novel in history! And one of the most famous novels in the world. Victor Hugo's timeless classic, through which he created a gem that touched all who read it on all continents and from different backgrounds and cultures, creating, through the most famous charming character (Jean Valjean), a unique model of love, goodness, and adherence to the values ​​of social justice.

The “Prince of French Literature” dealt with misery in the most honest sense of writing, according to the principles of psychoanalysis, investigating its reflections in the mirrors of love, society, politics, and economics, with an aesthetic spirit that filled the novel with moments of poetry, deep vision, and emotional association, which polished it to be a classic jewel that increases in brilliance with the passage of time, and to move to all neighboring arts, from cinema to theater, radio, music, and even video games. It is no surprise that Hugo took seventeen years to write “Les Misérables” before it came to light in 1862 AD. Throughout the 150 years, it has maintained its popularity with the uniqueness of its artistic characteristics, transforming it into an anthem for the deprived and a literary journey of the struggle of conscience between good and evil.