Used book – Les misérables - Volume 1 - Jean Valjean - Abridged Text, Victor Hugo, Jean-Claude Götting

A plank for a bed, hard labor, beatings, cannonballs chained to his feet—nineteen years of this relentless penal colony have left the convict Jean Valjean a hurt, broken man. All for breaking a window and stealing a loaf of bread. Yet, when he is finally released in 1815, hope is rekindled when the former convict crosses paths with Fantine and Cosette.