Les Misérables

The first new Penguin Classics translation in forty years of Victor Hugo's masterpiece—published in a stunning Graphic Deluxe edition. The subject of the world's longest-running musical and the recent Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning film starring Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, "Les MisErables "is a genuine literary treasure. 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, and has been a perennial favorite since it first appeared nearly 150 years ago. This exciting new translation with Jillian Tamaki's 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. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.