Victor Hugo

Les miserables, volume II Cosette Victor Hugo English edition

In this second part of Les Misérables, the author presents a portrait of Jean Valjean, a good man but sentenced to prison for stealing bread to feed his family. Being in prison the man tries several times to escape so his sentence grows in every attempt. He is released after serving 19 years in prison. This time of confinement changes his life, he becomes a cold and distant man ...