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Set amid the riot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris, Victor Hugo's masterful tale of heroism and adventure has been a perennial favorite since its first publication in 1831. It is the story... |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame, first published by Victor Hugo in 1831, is set in fifteenth century Paris. The archdeacon of Notre Dame, Claude Frollo, falls in lust with Esmerelda---a gypsy dancer who... |
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Les Misérables is primarily a great humanitarian work that encourages compassion and hope in the face of adversity and injustice. It is also a historical novel of great scope, and provides a... |
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Les Misérables is set in Paris after the French Revolution. In the sewers and backstreets we encounter "the wolf-like tread of crime", and assassination for a few sous is all in a day's... |
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| In many ways, Les Misérables was the culmination of Hugo's ideas, as well as a sort of hidden autobiography of the writer himself. Lush, lyrical, and powerful, it describes a process of... |
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