“Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.”

Ex-convict Jean Valjean is finally freed after nineteen years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread. Having changed his name and become a respected business owner, his identity is discovered by police inspector Javert, who becomes obsessed with recapturing the former prisoner. With Paris on the brink of revolution, can Valjean fulfill his promise to a dying woman and keep her daughter safe?

Victor Hugo’s masterwork has inspired many adaptations for stage and screen, serving as source material for the second-longest running musical of all time. A sweeping tale of love, redemption, and revolution, Les Misérables is widely considered to be one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.

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