The Perfect Smile
Thoughts on Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Of course I was enchanted. Maybe that was unavoidable given the way I came to know the story: listening to the musical from the back seat during so many family road trips. Still, I had my doubts. Victor Hugo’s 1862 classic is long and foreign and old and infamously riddled with digressions. I knew I would finish Les Misérables, but I was honestly afraid the venture would become one of attrition.
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