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| Of all the stimuli that have inspired poets over the centuries, love in all its guises has been an unceasingly rich and varied source of powerful, romantic and exquisite verse. Love poems have retained... |
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Set in the Parisian underworld and plotted like a detective story, Les Misérables follows the adventures of Jean Valjean, originally an honest peasant, who was imprisoned for nineteen years for... |
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| In many ways, Les Misérables was the culmination of Hugo's ideas, as well as a sort of hidden autobiography of the writer himself. Lush, lyrical, and powerful, it describes a process of... |
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