From the "This collection of extracts of 'Les Miserables' is presented to the teachers of French in the hope that it will make this immortal masterpiece available even to second year students in the high school...All the passages selected deal primarily with Jean Valjean, his experience with the bishop, his conversion, his dealing with Javert, his adoption of Cosette, his rescue of Marius through the sewer, his death...The exercises are very comprehensive; they cover rather thoroughly pronunciation of difficult words, idiomatic expressions, grammar rules found in the text...."
