If you open the Google homepage on Friday, you'll be greeted with a familiar face. You might not recognize Victor Hugo at first, but you almost definitely know his works—Hugo wrote The Hunchback of ...

The last time Philadelphia audiences saw playwrights Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical “Les Misérables” on a local stage, we lived in calmer socio-political times.

The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables. By David Bellos. Particular Books; 307 pages; £20. To be published in America by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in March; $27. “AS ...

When I hear the words Les Misérables, my mind often casts to the musical first and the film adaptation second. What I seem to almost always forget is that this story started life as a novel, and a ...

Ladj Ly's gritty, Oscar-nominated "Les Miserables" (B+; rated R; in theaters now in Los Angeles, expanding Friday to 17 cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Washington; adds additional ...

Today’s Google doodle is a callout to French novelist, poet and human rights activist Victor Hugo. The doodle marks the publication date of what is arguably his most well-known novel, “Les Misérables.

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Based on the celebrated 1862 novel by French author Victor Hugo, Les Misérables is considered to be one of the great novels of the 19th century. The story built around the period running from 1815 to ...

The Paris streets are full of joy during the opening moments of Ladj Ly’s electrifying “Les Misérables,” which despite the deceptive title is not yet another adaptation of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel, ...

"The message is simple: We Venezuelans never give up," says a star of Les Misérables opening in Caracas. Victor Hugo's classic resonates with residents in one of the world's deadliest cities. There's ...

This “Les Misérables” is not based on the Victor Hugo novel, but on a real incident of police brutality in France. It’s that nation’s submission for the 2020 international feature Oscar. “I come from ...