Om Illustrated Classics: Collection of Victor Hugo (Set of 2) (Les Miserables, The Hunchback of NotreDame)

A prisoner named Jean valjean is released from prison after nineteen years. He is turned away and shunned from every door in a town before he finds refuge in a Bishop house. But he steals from the Bishop who forgives him. Jean valjean mends his ways to become a rich man but is recognised by Inspector javert. Javerts sole aim is to put him behind bars again. Javert tries to capture Jean valjean but it results in the death of fantine, a working-class mother whose child valjean rescues from the evil Innkeeper and his wife. He raises cosette like his own and his life is transformed by love for the child. But Jean valjeans life changes when cosette falls for marius and the French Revolution breaks out. Set in 19th century Paris, Les misrables is arguably the best classic of French literature. The hunchback of Notre-Dame is a story about a good-hearted hunchback who confined himself in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame to hide his deformity from the world, a gypsy in search of her mother and a priest obsessed about the gypsy. The story forms an intricate web of love, hate, obsession and despair around the characters and shows that how love can elevate, destroy or even beautifully people. The Cathedral of Notre-Dame plays an important role and becomes the central ground for the drama, deceit, obsession, violence and love in this classic story.