This is the first in the five-part series Les Miserables, written by Victor Hugo. In the early 1800s in France, you could get five years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread, and every time you tried to escape, they'd tack on four more years and rivet an iron collar around your neck. The man who suffered so, was a peasant named Jean Val Jean. It's no wonder he hated society when he was finally set free...