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The Man Who Laughs

Victor Hugo

Start date: November 1, 2016

Finish date: February 1, 2017

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Dec 11, 2016 Greg rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 19th-century, trans-french, reviewed, oddities, favorites-of-the-1800s, translation, not-what-you-think

UPDATE: Hugo's masterpiece. Absolutely flawless, gorgeous, bittersweet and one of the greatest romances ever penned.

ORIGINAL REVIEW:
"...England is reverting at the present moment, thus giving to the world a strange spectacle of a great people, which, in its desire to take the better part, chooses the worse, and which, having before it the past on one side and progress on the other, mistakes its way, and takes night for day," writes Hugo. But ultimately, our heroes and heroines in this beautiful ...more

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Jan 29, 2017 Peg Gjertsen rated it did not like it

I really did not like this novel. It was 670 pages of agony to read. I would never recommend it to anyone.

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Oct 21, 2016 JJ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classic, many-pages

This book is beautifully written. It is very descriptive of boats and royalty/hierarchy. My favorite character is Ursus. If Victor Hugo had not written the very last chapter "Nay; On High!" then the whole story would have been completely different. SO much happens in that one final chapter. ...more

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