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Williams uses the oversize, comic strip format of her other picture books to evoke a sense of what it must have been like to attend performances of seven plays at the old Globe Theatre. An inviting taste of the Shakespearean buffet, as well as a rare glimpse into the character of Elizabethan theater.
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"Travel back to nineteenth-century France with ex-convict Jean Valjean as he tries to put his criminal past behind him and his fate intertwines with the ruthless Inspector Javert, determined to put Valjean back behind bars; the poor factory worker Fantine, whose struggle to provide for her child leads to her death; her orphaned daughter, Cosette, whom Valjean saves from poverty and neglect; and Cosette's besotted suitor, Marius. As a revolution sweeps...