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Dutch & English

Les Misérables

Original author
Victor Hugo
Adapted by
Line by Line Publishing,

Read Les Misérables by Victor Hugo in Dutch and English, a parallel text graded reader with audio. Available in CEFR levels A2, B1, and B2.

About this book

A man walks out of nineteen years in the galleys with a yellow passport and a heart turned to stone. He steals again, this time from the one house that took him in, a bishop's, and is dragged back by gendarmes. Then the Bishop lies to save him, presses the silver candlesticks into his hands, and sends him off with a charge to become an honest man. "It is your soul that I buy from you," the Bishop says. Les Misérables begins with that act of mercy and follows where it leads across a lifetime.

Available editions

A2
Short, concrete sentences for early learners.
34,513 sentences
B1
Longer sentences and a wider vocabulary.
34,513 sentences
B2
Complex sentences and a fuller vocabulary, close to everyday native reading.
34,513 sentences

Read a sample

I. Meneer Myriel
I. M. Myriel
1

In 1815 was M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel bisschop van D⁠⸺.

In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D⁠⸺.

2

Hij was een oude man, ongeveer 75 jaar oud.

He was an old man, about seventy-five years old.

3

Hij was al sinds 1806 bisschop van D⁠⸺.

He had held the position of Bishop of D⁠⸺ since 1806.

4

Dit detail heeft eigenlijk niets te doen met het verhaal dat we zullen vertellen.

This detail is not really connected to the story we will tell.

5

Maar het zal toch nuttig zijn om over alles precies te zijn.

But it will still be useful to be exact about everything.

6

Laten we dus kijken naar wat mensen over hem zeiden toen hij voor het eerst in de stad kwam.

So let’s look at what people said about him when he first came to the town.

7

Mensen praten over een persoon.

People say things about a person.

History

  1. Written by Victor Hugo in French
  2. Adapted by Line by Line Publishing in 2026