Read Les Misérables

Quasimodo, Esmeralda and the cathedral Hugo wrote the book to save.

London and Paris during the Terror; "it is a far, far better thing that I do".

D Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis against the Cardinal; all for one.

Revolutionary Paris rendered building by building, once the patches landed.

A murderer with a perfect nose in 18th-century France distils the scent of girls.

Warlords, strategists and the fall of the Han; the Chinese epic every game borrows.

Two aristocrats play seduction as a game by letter, in the last decade before the guillotine.

Julien Sorel climbs through Restoration France by seduction; Stendhal's ambition novel.