🎧 Includes the full unabridged audiobook (LibriVox recording) along with the ePub. Description Jean Valjean is released from prison after 19 years and tries to rebuild his life, but Inspector Javert will not let him escape his past. Hugo's magnificent novel is a story of redemption and human dignity. Author: Victor Hugo Genre: Fiction / Novel Listen to a preview Your browser does not support audio playback.Approximately 90 seconds from the public-domain audiobook.Read an EPUB preview In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806. Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility of the bar. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in parliamentary families. Excerpt from the verified public-domain EPUB included with this bundle.
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