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Alexander III

01-11-2011, 07:42 PM

It is time for a new author vs author showdown, so lets get this great ball rolling.

In the blue corner we have Victor Hugo's Les Miserables

In the red corner we have Tolstoy's War and Peace

The battle between the two heavyweight prose works of the 19th century.

*ding* *ding* *ding*

Let the wine and debate flow freely!

arrytus

01-11-2011, 08:24 PM

this is a joke right?

Alexander III

01-12-2011, 08:50 AM

Is it ?

JCamilo

01-12-2011, 11:26 AM

Because the count has military trainning...

Three Sparrows

01-14-2011, 08:07 PM

Tolstoy! Tolstoy!

AlfredtheGreat

01-14-2011, 10:17 PM

Tolstoy!

Mr.lucifer

01-15-2011, 03:25 PM

Les Miserables is longer so Hugo knocks out Tolstoy with one blow. "Know your place, Tolstoy, for I am true master of doorstopper novels!", says Hugo with his boot on Tolstoy's face.

kelby_lake

01-15-2011, 03:54 PM

I'll go for Les Mis, though I confess to only having seen the 1930's film and the musical :D

OrphanPip

01-15-2011, 04:12 PM

I'll go for Les Mis, though I confess to only having seen the 1930's film and the musical :D

I judge the value of all authors on the basis of the quality of musical adaptations too.

I dreamed a dream that Les Miserable won.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jo4FvpN3_g

Seasider

01-15-2011, 04:35 PM

I voted for Les Miserables. I read it in 1968 the year of Les Evenements in Paris and the reverberations of the events in Paris in the 1830s were quite spooky. I thought the book was long but wonderful.
I have just downloaded a copy to my Kindle the translation by Isabelle Hapgood of 188? and it was FREE.
I have neither seen the film nor the musical. Not as a conscious choice but the film was released before I was born and I have not got round to the musical version.