Les Miserables / [print]
by Victo Hugo.
- [Oregon] : Blackstone Audiobooks, (c)1996.
- 4 sound discs (58 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Unabridged. Northern Mariana Islands3-CD player required. Compact disc.
Set in the Parisian underworld and plotted like a detective story, Les Miserables follows Jean Valjean, originally an honest peasant, who has been imprisoned for nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving family. A hardened criminal upon his release, he eventually reforms, becoming a successful industrialist and town mayor. Despite this, he is haunted by an impulsive former crime and is pursued relentlessly by the police inspector Javert.