 Recorded Books presents an unimbridged recording of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, translated from the French by Julie Rose and narrated by George Guadel. As long as social damnation exists, through laws and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilization and muddying a destiny that is divine with human calamity, as long as the three problems of the century, man's debasement through the proletariat, woman's demoralization through hunger, the wasting of the child through darkness, are not resolved, as long as social suffocation is possible in certain areas, in other words, and to take an even broader view, as long as ignorance and misery.