The Victor Hugo Collection: Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame

This book collects the two best-known works of that brilliant French writer Victor Hugo. The epic Les Miserables is a stunning social critique of post-revolutionary France. The story centers on the attempts of Jean Valjean to redeem himself after unjust imprisonment. Meanwhile, the Hunchback of Notre Dame centers on the unlikely relationship between the hunchbacked Quasimodo and the beautiful Esmerelda. Much like Les Miserables, the book criticized what Hugo saw as France's social failings in his day and its lack of appreciation for the illustrious past.