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DavidH77
Posted May 21, 2009
Well Worth the Money
Understand that any other Hardcover volume of Les Miserables would run you $20 at least, to find a hard cover edition for under $14 and has The Hunchback of Notre Dame along with it is a complete steal. These books are not on the short side, so be prepared for a smaller font. Also, from a reader's point of view, Hugo tends to go into great detail of the history and background of each character and enviroment. This gives a wonderful life to his worlds, but can get on the nerves of today's more impatient readers, but worth working through. I implore anyone to read these stories. They are classics and can change your perspective on a great many things.
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Tough read
I love this story, but do understand it is not the musical. It so much more!
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Anonymous
Posted September 25, 2008
Brilliant Romanticism from the Finest Writer of France
Victor Hugo is a delight. His greatest works are of course his novels (unless you can read his poetry in the original French, I am told), and his supreme achievements are his novels Ninety-Three, The Man Who Laughs, and of course that great favorite of everyone's, Les Miserables. These four plays bring out a slightly different side of Victor Hugo. All of his energy, creativity, wit, and force are present. But there is also a fiery quality to the work, something positively revolutionary ¿ in the sense of stirring revolutions, inspiring glorious riots. The romanticism we find in Victor Hugo is altogether lost in today's fiction, and long departed from our stage. People simply do not write (or live) like this any more. One peculiar note concerning the book published by Methuen: they accidentally printed it almost twice. It starts on page 53 of the first play, runs through that and the other three plays, then starts again at page 1 and continues on again through page 398. It's the strangest thing.
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