The first new Penguin Classics translation in forty years of Victor Hugos masterpiece, the subject of The Novel of the Century by David Bellospublished in a stunning Deluxe edition. Winner of the French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundations 29th Annual Translation Prize in Fiction.
The subject of the worlds longest-running musical and the award-winning film, Les Misérables is a genuine literary treasure. Victor Hugos tale of injustice, heroism, and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him, and has been a perennial favorite since it first appeared over 150 years ago. This exciting new translation with Jillian Tamakis brilliant cover art will be a gift both to readers who have already fallen for its timeless story and to new readers discovering it for the first time.
