Back to my Les Miserables commentary!

Back to my Les Miserables commentary!

After 250 pages only seeing them from Marius’ POV, we meet Valjean, Cosette and their home in the Rue Plumet…and see their side of Marius & Cosette’s stealth courtship. Let’s just say Valjean is a lot more perceptive than Marius.

Back to the Rue Plumet

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Darrin Matteson: saw the musical and I’ve TRIED reading the book. I got about 60 pages into it and was bored to tears by the Bishop of Digne. I’ve read that the book was originally published in serial form in the Paris newspaper over a 20+ year span which explains why the book is so long and detailed.

Me: It picks up eventually, but even in the middle there are long stretches that leave you wondering just why on earth they were included. As for publishing, I don’t think it was serialized over that much time. It may have been published in several volumes, but I think they all hit in 1862.