Classic literature Quote by Maud Hart Lovelace

“there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables; whose fault…

— Victor Hugo

Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person after reading…

— Graham Robb

“Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, forced himself to write by disrobing and giving his clothing to his valet with strict instructions that it…

— Wilma Davidson

“Not every classic book was the best thing ever. Each book has flaws, and it’s up to writers to change things.”

— Tim Holtorf

“Besides being witty and funny and maybe the best novel ever written, it’s also the most perfect romance in all of literature and nothing…

— Shannon Hale

“I read anything I saw lying around. Pulp fiction, great literature and everything in between - I gave them all the same rough treatment.”

— Ian McEwan

“CHAPTER 2: THE GRACE-SHAPED LIFE 1. Jim Reimann, Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables (Nashville: Word Publishing, 2001), 16. 2. Ibid., 29–31.”

— Max Lucado

“The greatest work of fiction by any man”

— Centaur Editions

“Great books can be ruined by bad writers.”

— Travis Simmons

“People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was…

— Dale Peck

“Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.”

— Caro Clarke

“As always with the greatest works, the novel is so many-sided that over time it mirrors back the shifting concerns of those who read…

— Carl F. Hovde