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“Vividly illustrates two ideas about character. The first is that our characters can change over time, the second is that role models can be powerful sources of character change.” Read more...
The best books on Moral Character
Christian B Miller, Philosopher
“I read Les Misérables when I was a kid and then re-read it last summer and…I am now convinced that it is the greatest novel of all time. Every story in the world is somewhere in there. It’s extremely sentimental, it’s extremely historical and digressive, there are parts of it that are boring as hell – but that’s true of War and Peace and other great novels. Overall, it’s such a compendious, wonderful thing, full of gems…He was in exile on the island of Guernsey from where he could almost see France on a clear day. And one big dimension of Les Misérables is it’s a novel of nostalgia – he’s trying to reconstruct the Paris of his youth” Read more...
David Bellos, Biographer
