Les Miserables is a much more serious book. And the satire and the fantastical flavor that I found so entertaining when I read Notre-Dame de Paris, enough that I was able to overlook the fifty-page digressions on historical architecture, seemed to be missing here. It took me about six months because damn, is Victor Hugo wordy. ( A Dance to the Music of Time was longer, but while a single work, it's technically twelve books.) Weighing in at about 1400 pages, it's now the single longest book I've ever read. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society, Les Misérables is a novel on an epic scale, moving inexorably from the eve of the battle of Waterloo to the July Revolution of 1830. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert.

Victor Hugo’s tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. Years pass by and Valjean is the guardian of Cosette, a child who has lost her mother to the most pitiful of circumstances.Originally published in 1862, approximately 565,500 words. However, on breaking his parole and escaping to start a new life, he incites the wrath of Officer Javert who vows to bring him back to prison. Jean Valjean has just been freed from prison after being incarcerated for 19 years. In the cast of the show, you will find some of the most acclaimed names, including Kelly Agbowu as Madame, Chanice Alexander Burnett as Fantine, Harry Apps as Marius, Charlie Burn as Cosette, Gerard Carey as Thenardier, Danny Colligan as Joly, Sha Dessi as Eponine, Josefina Gabrielle as Madame Thenardier and Bradley Jaden as Javert. Also famous for its soundtracks, Les Misérables tells the story of love, redemption and more. Les Misérables has not only gathered new fans over the years but people swarm in to rewatch it too.

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