Free classics · 1862
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo · translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood
A released convict tries to become a good man while a policeman hunts him across twenty years of French history.
- to read
- 40 h
- to read
- at 20 min a day
- 119 days
- at 20 min a day
- public domain
- Free
- public domain
What it’s about
Jean Valjean breaks parole, rebuilds his life and adopts the orphan Cosette, while Inspector Javert never stops looking for him.
Hugo includes long sections on Waterloo, the Paris sewers and convents, around one of the most moving stories in fiction.
- Mercy and justice
- Poverty
- Redemption
Why people stop, and how to finish
The digressions: the battle of Waterloo alone runs for many chapters before the story continues.
What helps: It is fine to skim the history sections first time through. The story chapters carry the book.
At 20 minutes a day you’ll reach the last page in about 119 days.
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