 | Frederick William Robinson - 1862 - 354 sider
...ENGLISH TRANSLATION. SECOND EDITION. Complete in 3 vols. post 8vo. Price 31s. 6d. " ' Les Misdrablcs ' is one of those rare works which have a strong personal...Any one who reads the Bible and Shakspeare may read ' Les Mise"rables.' The story is admirable, and is put together with unsurpassable art, care, life,... | |
 | Victor Marie Hugo - 1862 - 432 sider
...entitled to be considered as a man of genius. He has wonderful poetical power, and he has the (acuity, which hardly any other French novelist possesses,...Any one who reads the Bible and Shakspeare may read * Les Mise"rables.' The story is admirable, and is put together with unsurpassable art, care, life,... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1862 - 456 sider
...French imaginative writer of the present century who is entitled to be considered as a man of geuius. He has wonderful poetical power, and he has the faculty,...Hugo's book deserves high praise is its perfect purity. Anyone who reads the Bible and Shakspeare may read Les Misgrables.' The story is admirable, and is... | |
 | 1862 - 628 sider
...power, and he has the faculty, which hardly any other French novelist possesses, of drawing bemulfnl as well as striking pictures. Another feature for which Victor Hugo's book deserves high praiM la itt perfect purity. Any one who reads the Bible and Sbakspeare may read " Les Miserabte."... | |
 | Anna D'Almeida - 1863 - 330 sider
...whole, it abounds page after page with details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review. *• ' Les Mise'rables ' is one of those rare works which...Any one who reads the Bible and Shakspeare may read * Les Mise'rables.' The story is admirable, and is put together with unsurpassable art, care, life,... | |
 | Charles Bernard Gibson - 1863 - 330 sider
...as a whole, It abounds page after page with details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review. " ' Les Miserables ' is one of those rare works which...Any one who reads the Bible and Shakspeare may read ' Les Miserables.' The story Is admirable, and is put together with unsurpassable art, care, life,... | |
 | Eliza Stephenson - 1863 - 330 sider
...after page with details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review, " ' Les Miserablea ' is one oi those rare works which have a strong personal interest...Any one who reads the Bible and Shakspeare may read * Les Mise'rables,' The story is admirable, and is put together with unsurpassable art, care, life,... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1863 - 360 sider
...as a whole, it abounds page after page with details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review. " ' Les Miserables ' is one of those rare works which...deserves high praise is its perfect purity. Any one who rea.ls the Bible and Shakspeare may read ' Les Miserables.' The story is admirable, and is put together... | |
 | Vicissitudes - 1863 - 320 sider
...as a whole, it abounds page after page with details of unequalled beauty." — Quarterly Review. " * Les Miserables ' is one of those rare works which...deserves high praise is its perfect purity. Any one who rea Js the Bible and Shakspeare may read * Les Mise'rables.' The story is admirable, and is put together... | |
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It is not merely the work of a truly great man, but it is his great and favourite work — the fruit of years of thought and labour. Victor Hugo is almost the only French imaginative writer of the present century who is entitled to be considered as a... 
