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🎧 Audiobook Excerpt from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. Read by Chapter Breaks – Short Literary Escapes Classic audio pills for your commute, bedtime unwind, or a break anytime. At Chapter Breaks, we carefully select and curate iconic passages from classic novels — timeless opening chapters, dramatic turning points, or unforgettable finales. Each episode is around 20–30 minutes, designed to let you dip into great literature without the commitment of a full audiobook. Victor Hugo – Les Misérables – Volume 5, Book 3, Chapters 1 & 2 | The Sewer and Its Surprises. A wounded soul carried into darkness — and a city that hides its secrets beneath the streets. Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is one of the great monuments of world literature — a vast, compassionate, and fiercely human novel about justice, love, sacrifice, and the struggle for dignity. From the story of Jean Valjean’s redemption to the idealism of the barricades and the quiet heroism of ordinary lives, Hugo weaves together the threads of an entire society. The novel embraces suffering and hope in equal measure, revealing the light that persists even in the darkest corners of Paris. These Chapters follow Valjean as he enters this underworld of mud, darkness, and uncertainty. Each step is a battle against fear, exhaustion, and the weight of the young man he carries. Hugo transforms the sewers into a symbolic landscape — a place where guilt, sacrifice, and redemption mingle in the shadows. Here, Valjean walks alone, confronting not only the filth beneath the city but the depths of his own humanity. In this gripping sequence, Jean Valjean escapes the barricade with the gravely wounded Marius in his arms. Surrounded by chaos and gunfire, he makes an impossible decision and disappears into the sewers of Paris — a vast, dangerous labyrinth where light dies and the past clings to every dripping stone. We are about to descend with him into the darkness — a journey of courage, anguish, and unwavering love. Let's open the page together, your chapter break begins now.

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