A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Les Mis?rables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert??s dogged pursuit of Jean Valjean?? its appeal has never waned?? but only grown broader in its one-hundred-and-fifty-year life. Whether we encounter Victor Hugo??s story on the page?? onstage?? or on-screen?? Les Mis?rables continues to captivate while als