Les Misérables
Written by Victor Hugo
Narrated by Bill Homewood
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Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) is one of the most well-regarded French writers of the nineteenth century. He was a poet, novelist and dramatist, and he is best remembered in English as the author of Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). Hugo was born in Besançon, and became a pivotal figure of the Romantic movement in France, involved in both literature and politics. He founded the literary magazine Conservateur Littéraire in 1819, aged just seventeen, and turned his hand to writing political verse and drama after the accession to the throne of Louis-Philippe in 1830. His literary output was curtailed following the death of his daughter in 1843, but he began a new novel as an outlet for his grief. Completed many years later, this novel became Hugo's most notable work, Les Misérables.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent narration of a most sublime story. It's long but worth it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dedication and patience required to absorb this classic. Worth it! The intricacies of the plot and the details of the characters validate Hugo’s genius. Most spiritual novel I ever listened to. I will tackle reading it one day, but I add that the narrator enriched the writing and the telling.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Hugo is a good writer, but he babbels on beyond all reason. Just be course a person is going into a sewer, we do not need 20 pages on the history of sewers. And the translation i catastrophic. I choose the English version be course I do now speak French, and still there is long parts in original french without translation. And little word plays, that are not translated. It really ruined a lot for me ?
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well performed classic. The book itself does take a few unessessary detours though.
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