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#OTD in 1862.

The first two volumes of Victor Hugo's epic historical novel Les Misérables appear in Brussels, followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes on May 15. The first English-language translations, by Charles Edwin Wilbour, are published in New York on June 7, and by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, in London in October.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%

Les Misérables at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q

"So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless."

Preface, Les Misérables (1862).

~Victor Hugo