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***Read for my Classics Challenge***To love, or to have loved,—this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a fulfilment.5 Stars.The musical happens to be one that has remained with me for most of my life upon witnessing it for the ...
I read somewhere that Hugo writes like a cuddly old grandfather that goes on tangents while he tells his stories. I agree wholeheartedly. The story is beautiful. The characters were beautiful. And I learned a TON about French society and politics. What more could a reader ask for?
~Disclaimer: I read the abridged version with the cover of the one pictured left because, who has time to read a 1,000 page book. I might read the whole book this summer, though.~Overall: I really loved this book! It was nothing like the movie, but don't even get me started. I loved the writing styl...
Might as well get the length out of the way. "Les Miserables", the unabridged version, is longer than either "War and Peace" or "Anna Karenina"; and both of Tolstoy's classics took me about two months to get through as did Les Miserables. The narrative gets 5-Stars. It is because of the interlude...
"We can only suppose that its new life as a musical - and what an appropriate fate for that most operatic novelist - will help to bring Les Misérables to the attention of a new generation of readers, reminding them perhaps that the abuses Hugo catalogues are still alive elsewhere, awaiting their own...
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