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Feb.08.2013
I usually have no trouble writing reviews for books I've read and enjoyed -- and even for books I've not enjoyed, but quantifying Seduction by M. J. Rose is difficult. There is much more to the story and what is right and wrong with the book than the usual issues.
The book begins with Victor Hugo...
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Jan.05.2013
Les Miserables a film review by Jeanne Powell
The French novelist Victor Hugo died in 1885 and was buried with honors in the Pantheon, the temple to great French intellectuals. He published his 1,400 page novel Les Miserables in 1862, when he was 60 years of...
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Dec.28.2012
Strange to have a movie season replete with flicks the missus and I consider"must-sees." One we saw the day after Christmas was, for me, a long awaited one: Les Misérables. The story is famous enough that I needn't depict the plot. Suffice it to say that for the most part the movie clung...
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Sep.11.2012
What does Mark Carver have to say about Gothic Cathedrals and the Art of Melodrama? As the seeds for The Age of Apollyon were taking root in my imagination, I read Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. In addition to being a fantastic story, that book opened my eyes to...
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Mar.21.2011
In my novel, I include the wonderful and charismatic Victor Hugo. Hugo really did admire Maria Deraismes, my protagonist, although in reality he never did get to meet her. Hugo was such a supporter of equality that he actually exiled himself from France on occasion in protest of the government's...
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Aug.18.2010
Real-life Quasimodo uncovered in Tate archives With his hunched back and deformed face, Quasimodo, the tragic hero of Victor Hugo's novel The Hunch Back of Notre Dame, has always been considered a mythical creation drawn from the depths of the author's imagination.
By Roya Nikkhah, Arts...
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Jul.31.2010
Kudos again to Ron Goldstein for his persistence in naming yesterday's line: it was from Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo.
Today's line (well, more a complex thought than a line) is from a work of one of the U.S.'s great writers:
"I believe that there is one story in the world, and only...
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Apr.01.2010
The Museum of Innocence, by Orhan Pamuk
It takes a certain emotional discipline to read European Literature. No, change that – it takes a certain unique discipline to read any literature other than that of these United States. We here in the colonies go for hidden tawdriness, spelled out...
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Mar.20.2009
The misery of a child matters for a mother, the misery of a young man matters for a young girl, the misery of an old man matters for noone.
(Victor Hugo in les Misérables)
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