Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: The Beauty and Anguish of Les Miserables!

Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is one of history's most famous novels and one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history. On this special episode of It's Lit! we explore how Les Miserable became both a national and revolutionary anthem, and so publicly adored that all 1,900 pages never went out of print. [8:46]