The adaptations did well at condensing a big book, but the big book itself is so much deeper and richer. I worked my way through it, slowly and steadily and I am very glad that I did. That is why I invested in a new copy Les Misérables. I was so taken with ‘Anna Karenina’ that I had to read ‘War and Peace’ too, and this is the project that made me finally understand why so many people love Anthony Trollope …
I always meant that to make me read the big classics and the well-read authors I had always meant to read but hadn’t – yet. I saw some wonderfully positive comments from a year-long read-along, and as I have read some other big classics that I thought I would never read over the last few years, I began to think that I really should tackle this one too, and that it would be a wonderful way to fill the 1862 hole in my 100 Years of Books Project. The time came though when I began to wonder if I had done the right thing.
I was one of them, and I even gave my copy away, because it is such a very big book and because there were so many other books that I hadn’t read that I knew even less about. There are probably very few people who have never read this very big book but believe that they have a good understanding of what it is all about thanks to a hit musical films, both with and without music and a recent BBC television series, adapted by a rather famous screenwriter.
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