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The Beauty and Anguish of Les Misérables!

Special | 9m 7s

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Victor Hugo’s Les Miserable is one of history’s most famous novels and one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history. On this special episode of It’s Lit! we explore how Les Miserable became both a national and revolutionary anthem, and so publicly adored that all 1,900 pages never went out of print.

Aired: 04/19/19 | Rating: NR

Made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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