


Every resource of bookselling ingenuity has been exhausted in order to make every human being who can read think that the salvation of his body and soul depends on his reading Les Misérables.

Translations have appeared in numerous languages almost simultaneously with its publication in Paris. It has evidently been “engineered” with immense energy by the French publisher. F antine, the first of five novels under the general title of Les Misérables has produced an impression all over Europe, and we already hear of nine translations.
