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14144566 No.14144566 [Reply] [Original]

What is the equivalent to Les Misérables and Don Quixote in the english language?

>> No.14144582

Why do you think they translated them?
Stop thinking there has to be equivalencies to everything and enjoy a book. Stop looking for sequels or something just like it. Move on. Develop.

>> No.14144583 [DELETED] 

>>14144566
You mean in terms of stature? Moby-Dick would be the obvious choice.

>> No.14144589

moby dick

>> No.14144590 [DELETED] 

>>14144582
I think he's talking about equivalent importance, not equivalent content.

>> No.14144626

>>14144566
Middlemarch

>> No.14144666

>>14144566
For Americans, probably "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

For British, probably "The Tale of Two Cities"

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>>14144666
Begone satan! Along with thy shit taste

>> No.14144707

>>14144566
Do you mean equivalent in terms of similar concepts/plots or equivalent in terms of literary achievement?

>> No.14144748

moby dick or paradise lost or hamlet

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14146059

Oliver! is clearly superior to either Les Mis or The Man of La Mancha.

>> No.14146067 [DELETED] 

>>14146059
lol no

>> No.14146135

>>14144566
>equivalent to Les Miserables
Gone with the Wind
>equivalent to Don Quixote
Either Ivanhoe or The Once and Future King

>> No.14146153

>>14144566
m diay desu

>> No.14146260

>equivalent to Les Misérables
The Last Days of Pompeii

>> No.14146496

>>14144582
shut the fuck up faggot

>> No.14146523

>>14144566
Melville, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy - those types, just take your pick.

>> No.14146736

>>14144566
As in greatest novel in the language? Either
>>14144589
or
>>14144626

If you mean novels that are like them then
>Les Miserables
Tale of Two Cities, Ivanhoe
>Don Quixote
Tom Jones, Pickwick Papers