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  1. Tom Austill

    Tom Austill edited the memorable quotes of The Temptation of the Impossible Tuesday, January 8, 2013.

    • Added a quotation: “It is the case that, albeit to a lesser extent, all fictions make their readers live "the impossible," taking them out of themselves, breaking down barriers, and making them share, by identifying with the characters of the illusion, a life that is richer, more intense, or more abject and violent, or simply different from the one that they are confined to by the high-security prison that is real life. Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because the abyss bewtween what we are and what we would like to be has to bridged somehow. That was why fictions were born: so that, through living this vicarious, transient, precarious, but also passionate and fascinating life that fiction transports us to, we can incorporate the impossible into the possible and our existence can be both reality and unreality, history and fable, concrete life and marvellous adventure.Mario Vargas Llosa
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  2. Tom Austill

    Tom Austill edited the first sentence of The Temptation of the Impossible Tuesday, January 8, 2013.

    • The main character in Les Miserables is not Monseigneur Bienvenu or Jean Valjean, or Fantine, or Gavroche, or Marius, or Cosette, but the person who invents them and tells their story, this insolent narrator who is constantly cropping up between his creation and the reader.
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  3. Cora R

    Cora R approved Pequeño saltamontes’s request to change the title of The Temptation of the Impossible Friday, June 29, 2012.

    Title: The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and "Les Miserables"Impossible
    Subtitle: Victor Hugo and "Les Miserables" ( see Cora R’s edits | report abuse )
  4. Pequeño saltamontes

    Pequeño saltamontes changed the title of The Temptation of the Impossible Thursday, June 21, 2012.

    Title: The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and "Les Miserables"Impossible
    Subtitle: Victor Hugo and "Les Miserables" Cora R approved this request. ( see Pequeño saltamontes’s edits | report abuse )
  5. BookCrazy - VERY limited time online for the foreseeable future

    BookCrazy - VERY limited time online for the foreseeable future approved Pequeño saltamontes’s request to combine 6 books, including The Temptation of the Impossible, Monday, January 30, 2012.

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  6. Pequeño saltamontes

    Pequeño saltamontes submitted a request to combine 6 books, including The Temptation of the Impossible, Wednesday, January 25, 2012.

    BookCrazy - VERY limited time online for the foreseeable future approved this request.
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  7. Gino Sanchez

    Gino Sanchez edited the first edition of The Temptation of the Impossible Saturday, February 26, 2011.

    • changed the language: Spanish
    • changed the publisher: Punto De Lectura
    • changed the country: Spain
    • changed the publication date: 2005
    • changed the ISBN: 8466316833
    • changed the page count: 208
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  8. ScarTissue

    ScarTissue approved Pequeño saltamontes’s request to combine 3 books, including The Temptation of the Impossible, Tuesday, October 12, 2010.

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  9. Shelfari

    Shelfari edited the settings of The Temptation of the Impossible Monday, October 11, 2010.

    • Added a setting: Paris
    • Added a setting: Waterloo
    • Added a setting: Gorbeau
    • Added a setting: France
    • Added a setting: Montfermeil
    • Added a setting: Balzac
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  10. Shelfari

    Shelfari edited the characters of The Temptation of the Impossible Monday, October 11, 2010.

    • Added a character: Jean Valjean
    • Added a character: Victor Hugo
    • Added a character: Marius
    • Added a character: Lamartine
    • Added a character: Cosette
    • Added a character: Viii
    • Added a character: Les Misérables
    • Added a character: Enjolras
    • Added a character: Thénardier
    • Added a character: Monsieur Madeleine
    • Added a character: Monsieur Gillenormand
    • Added a character: Rue Saint-denis
    • Added a character: Flaubert
    • Added a character: Champmathieu
    • Added a character: Monsieur Mabeuf
    • Added a character: Gavroche
    • Added a character: Xii
    • Added a character: Javert
    • Added a character: Monsieur Leblanc
    • Added a character: Juliette Drouet
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