The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables

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By David Bellos

Published Feb. 9, 2017

  Professor David Bellos brings a fresh biographical approach to one of the world’s most enduringly popular novels. The Novel of the Century (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) tells the story of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece and how it came to epitomize 19th-century history, and to dominate the screen and the stage.

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