Les Miserables: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback

by Victor Hugo (Author), Christine Donougher (Translator), Christine Donougher (Notes by)

A new translation of Hugo's novel, which, "beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, ... follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption"--Wikipedia.

Author Biography

VICTOR HUGO (1802-1885) was one of the most revered French writers of the nineteenth century.

CHRISTINE DONOUGHER is a freelance translator from French and Italian and a recipient of the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize.

ROBERT TOMBS is a professor of history at St John's College, Cambridge, England.

JILLIAN TAMAKI is an illustrator and comic artist and teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.