Tag: Victor-Hugo

• Book Fact: Length Doesn’t Matter

  

  Les Misérables contains a sentence that is widely cited as being 823 words long in English translation.  This exceptionally long sentence appears in Volume 2, Book 1, Chapter 3, within a detailed description of the Battle of Waterloo. It is known for its sprawling, detailed prose, characteristic of Hugo’s writing style, and has been cited in past editions…

  Lori O’Gara

  November 2, 2025

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