Jean Valjean is arrested for stealing bread and sent to prison for twenty years. Upon his release he finds the world a very unforgiving place except for the kindness of Bishop Bienvenu who encourages him to return the kindness to others. In the course of his life he befriends the dying prostitute, Fantine, and adopts her daughter Cosette.

Ninety-Three (1874) is the final novel of Victor Hugo. As a work of historical fiction, the story is set during the period of conflict between the newly formed French Republic and the Royalists who sought to reverse the gains of the revolution. Praised for its morality and honest depiction of the horrors of war, Ninety-Three influenced such wide-ranging political thinkers as Joseph Stalin and Ayn Rand. "The soldiers forced cautiously. Everything was...

Stowed away in the bell tower of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, strong Quasimodo is treated like a monster. Then he meets a kind gypsy girl, Esmeralda, and he becomes an unexpected hero when he saves from an unjust sentence of death.

In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.

In this graphic version of the story, Quasimodo, the reviled bell-ringer of Notre Dame, becomes a hero when he rescues the gypsy girl Esmeralda from an unjust sentence of death.

In a new graphic novel adaptation, escaped convict Jean Valjean risks his freedom to take care of a motherless young girl during a period of political unrest in Paris while Inspector Javert relentlessly pursues him for a minor crime.