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Victor Hugo is best known as a novelist, but he was also a master illustrator. 70 years before the surrealists, he painted these with ink, soot, coffee, and blood
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Or the 60 pages describing how the some nun never ever lied under any circumstances just so you'd know it was a big deal when she lies to Javert.
Ahhh I don't know, that was one part I didn't mind - the little character backstories in which you can see the depths a character would go to, despite living their whole life to the contrary. It just goes to show the love they had for Valjean. The build up makes it all the more poignant.
Sewer and Waterloo chapters can fuck off though lol