One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

Les Miserables

3 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Les Miserables

By VICTOR HUGO Condensation by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE ABOUT the time of the French Revolution, Jean Valjean of La Brie, a day-laborer, earned…

Les Miserables: Fantine

Employed in his factory was Fantine, a girl who had been deserted in Paris by an unworthy lover. She had left her baby, Cosette, with a…

Les Miserables: Marius

Baron Marius, the son of a man whom Thenadier had robbed at Waterloo and had incidentally saved from a terrible death, had been turned out…

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