Les Misérablesin a sentence
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Les Misérables is long and often digresses into essays that argue a moral point, but as biographer A.F. Davison said, "The digressions of genius are easily pardoned."
Les Misérables = Victor Hugo's famous French novel (with many film and stage adaptations) of a good man driven by hunger to a crime that changes his life (1862)
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- I noticed, though, when he came home for Christmas, that he was reading a book called Les Miserables, and I decided that it must be the kind of a book a college student reads.† (source)
- A Les Miserables poster was nailed to the wall behind Andrews next to a topographical map of the U.S. A pot of tomato plants basked in the sun on the windowsill.† (source)
- They had never even seen Les Miserables, for crying out loud!† (source)
- He has also enjoyed considerable success on Broadway, backing such hits as Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera and producing the award-winning Gershwin musical Crazy for You.† (source)
- They had a leisurely, wonderful meal, and afterward Theresa took Garrett to Les Misérables, which was currently showing in Boston.† (source)
- That Les Miserables sure was a funny book.† (source)
- Les Miserables.† (source)
- It also had weird echoes of Les Miserables, which she recalled …. oh, so well.† (source)
- In real life, Will asked me what I thought of Victor Hugo's political views in Les Miserables, and I answered him, though I don't remember what I said.† (source)
- It was a ragged copy of Les Miserables, that book which caught the fancy of the Confederate soldiers.† (source)
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- This book, Les Miserables, is no less your mirror than ours.† (source)
- You are right, sir, when you tell me that Les Miserables is written for all nations.† (source)
- LETTER TO M. DAELLI Publisher of the Italian translation of Les Miserables in Milan.† (source)
- You write:— "There are Italians, and they are numerous, who say: 'This book, Les Miserables, is a French book.† (source)
- In every place where man is ignorant and despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the hearth which should warm him, the book of Les Miserables knocks at the door and says: "Open to me, I come for you."† (source)
- PREFACE So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century— the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light— are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.† (source)
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