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Victor Hugo

Les Misérables (Book Center)

An epic novel of nineteenth-century France, Les Miserables tells the story of Jean Valjean, an ex-convict who works to redeem his past. Popularized by the film and musical, the novel is a sweeping masterpiece of character, adventure and emotion.
1,994 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020
Publisher
CDED
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Quotes

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    To nothing. But I shall have enjoyed. My choice is made. I
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    This is the shade of meaning; the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.’
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    Madame Magloire once said to him with a kind of gentle reproach: ‘Monseigneur, you are always anxious to make everything useful, but yet here is a plat that is of no use. It would be much better to have salads there than bouquets.’ ‘Madame Magloire,’ replied the bishop, ‘you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the useful.’ He added, after a moment’s silence, ‘perhaps more so.’

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