Regarded as French novelist Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, Les Miserables, which was released in 1862, is certainly a sprawling historical and philosophical epic that addresses from 1815 through the Paris Uprising in 1832. Notable for its many subplots and digressions from the main story, the novel’s stated aim is a improvement from wicked to good, from injustice to justice, from falsehood to truth, which may be seen most clearly in the storyplot of the central character Jean Valjean, an ex-convict who struggles to tremble the sins of his previous and become a good man. Widely modified, the novel motivated the blockbuster musical and film colloquially known as Les Mis. This is an unabridged audio documenting from the 1887 Isabel F. Hapgood translation.