Mysteries Of Paris is a large novel is scope and size. Mysteries Of Paris is a novel dealing with social criticism. Sue gives the reader a tale of prostitutes and the middle class, violence, and compassion. Sue also wrote another multi-volume work The Wandering Jew. An excerpt reads, "The surprised lapidary rose and opened the door. Two men entered the garret. One of them was tall and thin with a face mean and pimpled surrounded by thick grayish whiskers; he held in his hand a stout loaded cane and wore a shapeless hat and a large green greatcoat covered with mud and buttoned close up to the...

The first new translation in over a century of the brilliant epic novel that inspired Les Miserables
Sensational, engrossing, and heartbreaking, The Mysteries of Paris is doubtless one of the most entertaining and influential works to emerge from the nineteenth century. It was one of France s first serial novels, and for sixteen months, Parisians rushed in droves to the newsstands each week for the latest installment. Eugene Sue s intricate melodrama unfolds around a Paris where, despite the gulf between them, the fortunes of the rich and poor are inextricably...