"One of the half-dozen greatest novels of the world." —Upton Sinclair<br/>"The greatest of all novels." —Leo Tolstoy<br/>"Hugo is unquestionably the most powerful talent that has appeared in France in the nineteenth century." —Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br/>"I sobbed and wailed and thought [books] were the greatest things." —Susan Sontag<br/><br/>«Les Misérables» is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.<br/>Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption.