Les Paper Backrables

The first new Penguin Classics translation in forty years of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece the subject of The Novel of the Century by David Bellos—published in a stunning Deluxe edition. Winner of the FrenchAmerican Foundation Florence Gould Foundation’s 29th Annual Translation Prize in Fiction. The subject of the world’s longestrunning musical and the awardwinning film Les Misérables 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 over 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 seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the Englishspeaking world. With more than 1700 titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as uptodate translations by awardwinning translators.