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Oh. Hugo. Damn you are wordy!I mean, Charles Dickens can go on, but read Victor Hugo and you will come to appreciate Chuck's brevity.Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it has been our duty to enter it. Why? Because the convent, which is common to the Orient as well...
Tragic. Beautifully composed, though I had some issues that may have been due to choices the translator made.
Starting over because I didn't realize my previous translation was abridged and now I'm a little ticked off at Norman Denny. I'm going to start the Julie Rose translation tomorrow. *squee*
The story begins in March 1793 as Louis XVI has been beheaded, Marie Antoinette and her children are imprisoned and the Committee for Public Safety has unleashed The Reign of Terror. Unaware of a curfew, a young woman is stopped by members of the National Guard but saved from arrest by Civic Guard o...
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