Victor Hugo: which book should you start with?

The most accessible of the author's books in our catalogue.

Victor HugoLes MisérablesFreed after nineteen years in the galleys for a stolen loaf, Jean Valjean finds neither work nor shelter, until a bishop takes him in. A different man under a false name, he takes in Cosette, daughter of a working woman dead in destitution, and raises her in hiding. Inspector…Read bilingually →

• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame