![]() ![]() ![]() When the course of his life is changed by a single, unexpected act of faith and generosity he begins a life of escape and reparation. Imprisoned in the Bagne of Toulon for 19 years for the original crime of stealing a loaf of bread, Valjean emerges embittered fuelled by rage at a broken system of justice. At its heart are the reverberations rippling from the life of one man: Jean Valjean. It is nothing to die it is dreadful not to live.Īn epic portrait of crime, punishment, exile, justice, redemption, love, despair and high idealism, Les Misérables is justifiably regarded as one of the greatest novels of all time. Adapted by the BBC in a lavish new television series for Christmas 2018, Les Misérables is a timeless story a plot-driven epic of one man’s search for redemption and of lives swept up, made and broken in the tumultuous social and political changes of early nineteenth-century France. ![]()
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