The enduring truths of Victor Hugo’s ‘Les Miserables’

John Wight
Sep 3, 2018 · 6 min read

Modern literature lacks the epic works that encompass and define the times in which we live, capturing that elusive but necessary timelessness symptomatic of the profundity that is required of a classic.

Perhaps Don Delilio’s Underworld (1997) is the closest there has been to claiming that mantle over the past thirty years or so, but since then there has been little to…

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