Title: Edited with a chainsaw.
Review: Extremely disappointed with the abridging of this book. For example, almost 19 chapters are omitted regarding Waterloo. Not only is Hugo's telling of the battle moving, the artistic strokes of the pen, descriptions and insight are what classic novels and literature are all about. I suppose under Porter's cuttings, the Louve would only feature the Mona Lisa and sparsely anything else.Readers of this edition are robbed of fantastic writing and to try and claim you have read Les Miserables through this edition is like claiming to be a doctor by having a subscription to the journal of medicine. 'This book was a WASTE of my money and full and true edition faithful to Hugo's vision needed to be purchased
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