In the small town of Progrody, Nissen Piczenik makes his living as the most respected coral merchant of the region. Nissen has never been outside of his town, deep in the Russian interior, and fantasizes that a Leviathan watches over the coral...
At an end-of-London-season soirée, the young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos Bátky is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumors. Invited to the family seat — Pendragon...
Apparaissent deux nouveaux personnages: Gavroche, fils de Thénardier, qui incarne le gamin de Paris, et Marius Pontmercy, fils du colonel de Waterloo. Marius rejoint un groupe d'étudiants...