Everything about Les Miserables is built on an epic scale. At around 1500 pages, depending on which edition is making your bookshelf sag, Victor Hugo’s novel (published in 1862) is not only physically enormous, but also it deals with MASSIVE themes: love, obsession, redemption, justice, fate and the nature of good and evil. It’s human […]
Historia Interviews: David Bellos
We talk to Princeton Professor David Bellos about his HWA Non-fiction Crown shortlisted book, The Novel of the Century. The HWA Non-fiction Crown celebrates the best in historical non-fiction writing. Do you consider yourself a historian, a biographer or both? I would like to be thought of as a scholar and a writer with no […]