One of my favorite books in classical literature. It was an epic covering the tumultuous history of France through the scale of common people like Jean Valjean. On a social bases, it showed how an unjust society could transform a man to a criminal, a women to a prostitute and children to devastation. On a personal bases, it showed the path of redemption of Jean Valjean.

I hope that I could read the original verses in French one day.