Les Miserables: Complete and Unabridged
Victor Hugo, Lee Fahnestock (Translator), Norman MacAfee (Translator),Mass Market Paperback - Unabridged,Series: Signet Classics Series, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Victor Hugo, Lee Fahnestock (Translator), Norman MacAfee (Translator),Mass Market Paperback - Unabridged,Series: Signet Classics Series, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780451525260
Publish date: 28-03-1987
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
This book disappointed me. It meandered away from the plot too frequently and for too long to keep me interested a story that I otherwise might have enjoyed. Every time I found the plot pulling me in, Hugo delved off into 100 pages of 18th century French arcana and lost me completely.
I had to re-read Les Miserables. I fell in love with the story on the first read, but not the language. Having seen a few adaptations on stage and screen in the few years since my first read of the book, it has not lost any of its original appeal but I noticed that in all the adaptations I was dr...
This is the greatest literary accomplishment of my life! All 1400+ pages! And it was all worth it. Honestly as I was nearing the end I didn't think I would make it, but the next to last chapter is what made everything worth it. I was bawling like crazy. I've never felt this way about a book before. ...
"The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it." Film 2012 - could have done without hathaway but Sacha and Helena Bonham-Carter were fantastic!
Masterpiece. Great work :D
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