Victor Hugo - Les Misérables - 1862

5 volumes of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, 1862 edition

1st Volume Fantine 396 pages
2nd Volume Cosette 348 pages
3rd Volume Marius 306 pages
4th Volume The Idyll of Rue Plumet and the Epic of Rue Saint-Denis 431 pages
5th Volume Jean Valjean 360 pages

All the volumes are signed
Full of engravings
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As long as there exists, by the force of laws and mores, a social damnation artificially creating, in the midst of civilization, hells, and complicating by a human fate that which is divine; as long as the three problems of the century—the degradation of man by the proletariat, the decline of women through hunger, the debility of the child by the night—are not resolved; as long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia is possible; in other words, and from a broader perspective still, as long as there is ignorance and misery on earth, books of a nature like this may not be useless.

Hauteville-House, 1862,