I spent the month of February re-reading Les Miserables.
This novel is 1,500 pages long. It’s basically the same story as the musical, Les Miserables, which was one of the longest-running musicals on Broadway (the musical also has a movie version with Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe). The plot of the musical is remarkably faithful to the book. Both are about are a French convict, Jean Valjean, who gets released from prison in 1815 and steals some silverware from a kindly bishop. The bishop forgives him for the theft and tells him to make a good life for himself. After leaving the Bishop, Valjean adopts a new identity, founds a factory, and becomes a wealthy man and local notable.
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