View all posts by BookishRachael. Everything has a reason, and Hugo knows how to collect facts and bring them together in a masterful way, sometimes surprisingly. Actually, I'm hardly qualified to review a book that's universally considered a classic, but I can make some comments. Monsieur Myriel does not call the police, but Jean Valjean is arrested.

Later on in the book, when Valjean and the rescued Cosette have been hiding in Paris for some years, they encounter the awkward dreamer Marius Pontmercy, who Cosette ends up falling in love with. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Victor Hugo is an amazing writer, and the story he tells of all the rebels and rough-housers and saints and sinners in this novel is amazing. He follows it to the letter, unrelenting in his pursuit for justice. Yes, it is long, but not as ‘War and peace’ for example! Eponine, Gavroche, Father Mabeuf – young or old, these people have been beaten by the sufferings of life enough to develop certain power and a way to look life right into the eyes – something to admire. Fantine pleads her case, telling him how the gentleman she assaulted threw snow down her back and mocked her. He escapes once again by faking his own death in the sea. The sheer pathos, the emotion, the tragedy and the heartbreak Hugo manages to imbue in his cast of characters is astonishing. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. She begs for mercy and tells her tragic tale in its entirety. Many religious leaders are corrupt and only concerned about riches.

Victor Hugo gives a strong commentary on the injustices of society throughout and does not shy away from harsh realities. Inspector Javert believes that one is justified by the law, but when Jean Valjean saves him and he lets the man escape, Javert can find no relief for having broken the law. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account.

Cossette and Jean Valjean find a new, peaceful life for a time in the convent. It’s little wonder it makes for such an emotionally charged, tragic musical. She is from Montreuil-sur-mer, though she has no family. The level of English is quite difficult – I’m not used to looking up words in the dictionary, but with Les Miserables I was forced to do it quite a few times. i confirm, it’s a good one time read at least. Fabulous review! Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2019. 5,448 global ratings | 3,793 global reviews, Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2018. This is true about other facets of the book as well: although being very long, you won’t find needless things in it. On her deathbed, Jean Valjean swears to her that he will find Cosette and look after her. I was so glad this synopsis was available.
Victor Hugo certainly writes beautifully, his command of the words and sentences is excellent, and the philosophic detours, though tiring at times, are very touching. Monsieur Myriel welcomes him into his home. If something is said at all. But it kept me hooked. Book reviews cover the content, themes and worldviews of fiction books, not their literary merit, and equip parents to decide whether a book is appropriate for their children. Have a nice day. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. He comes across a chimney sweep and steals the boy’s coin in this confused, torn state. After Marius heals, he again pursues Cossette for marriage.

The father has abandoned them.

Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. It has a purpose and a place and provides a richness to his story that I have never seen in any other work. . Almamy Kanoute is probably the strongest performance as community organiser Salah, whose soft but flawed power over the banlieue carries as much thoughtfulness as mystique. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Most in France still believe in the old approach to newcomers, but Les Misérables offers a new spanner in the works in the form of a keener focus on the country’s racial tensions, which are less subconscious bias, and more of an all-encompassing cap on the life chances of millions. I especially felt for the descriptions of poor/hungry people in this book – extremely credible. Les Miserables I have been posting quotes from this book for a while now. It is hands down, one of the greatest work of literature. It’s immensely readable for a modern audience without losing any of the wonderful periodic language of the nineteenth century. Valjean, initially coldly shut out by the ignorant Marius but reconciled eventually, lives to see Cosette happily married before dying peacefully in the novel’s closing pages.
Hugo is fond of a tangent or several – over 50 pages on the battle of Waterloo, 20 on the Paris sewer system and several on the habits of the Paris street urchin – so be prepared to keep reading through seemingly unrelated discourses thrown between plot points. The experience of reading Les Miserables is akin to that of any lengthy novel.

Never one to meet a point he couldn’t belabor, he attempted, in this single volume, to explore the entire scope of human experience as he knew it in 19th-century Europe. This book has been reviewed by Focus on the Family’s marriage and parenting magazine. So, topical. It was a beautiful read. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. 5 star 60% 4 star 19% 3 star 11% 2 star 4% 1 star 6% Les Misérables: A Novel. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, See all details for Les Misérables: A Novel, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. I cannot find anyplace on the Amazon digital order site to ask for a better copy or to even get a refund.

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