{"id":7119,"date":"2018-12-31T05:15:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=7119"},"modified":"2024-11-27T18:21:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T02:21:13","slug":"les-miserables-chapter-a-day-read-along-the-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/les-miserables-chapter-a-day-read-along-the-wrap-up","title":{"rendered":"Les Mis\u00e9rables Chapter-a-Day Read-along: The Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fredric March and Cedric Hardwicke in Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em> (1935)<\/p><\/div>\n

Congratulations on reading one of the great works of world literature! Whether you finished\u00a0Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em> early, on time, or not yet, thank you for participating. I hope the read-along was as enriching for you as it was for me. (If you liked the experience of reading classic literature in one chapter a day, please consider joining the 2019 Chapter-a-Day Read-along<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

You now know some of the most memorable characters in literature: Jean Valjean. Fantine. Cosette. Javert. The Thenardiers. Eponine. Gavroche. Marius. The Friends of the ABC.<\/p>\n

My hope is that your reading of Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>\u00a0will make a positive difference in your life. At the beginning of the novel we looked at Hugo’s own purpose for writing Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>. Here it is again, and you can judge for yourself if he succeeded:<\/p>\n

I want to destroy human inevitability. I condemn slavery, I chase out poverty, I instruct ignorance, I treat illness, I light up the night, I hate hatred. That is what I am and that is why I have written The Wretched<\/em>. As I see it, The Wretched<\/em> is nothing other than a book having fraternity as its foundation and progress as its summit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Please feel free to use the comments section below to leave your thoughts about the book and\/or about reading it in one chapter a day.<\/p>\n

As for me, after spending a little time each of the last 365 days with Victor Hugo’s grand novel, the last line of the book perfectly expresses how the read-along ended:<\/p>\n

It came about simply, of itself,
\nAs night follows when the day is ended.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations on reading one of the great works of world literature! Whether you finished\u00a0Les Mis\u00e9rables early, on time, or not yet, thank you for participating. I hope the read-along was as enriching for you as it was for me. (If you liked the experience of reading classic literature in one chapter a day, please consider joining the 2019 Chapter-a-Day Read-along.) You now know some of the most memorable characters in literature: Jean Valjean. Fantine. Cosette. Javert. The Thenardiers. Eponine. Gavroche. Marius. The Friends of the ABC. My hope...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Les Mis\u00e9rables Chapter-a-Day Read-along: The Wrap-Up #lesmisreadalong","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,1219],"tags":[1103,1102,984,369,527],"class_list":["post-7119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-chapter-a-day-read-along","tag-cedric-hardwicke","tag-fredric-march","tag-les-mis-2018-read-along","tag-les-miserables","tag-victor-hugo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bishop_candlesticks.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-1QP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7123,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions\/7123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}