Victor Hugo - Les Misérables

Really good artist and he never made his work public
https://benedante.blogspot.com/2016/06/victor-hugos-drawings.html

Those are cool!

yeah, they are. thanks for sharing that, i had no idea. i like this one:

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WAp3DZoQnIY/V25_prlcETI/AAAAAAAA7ko/xNLF2PYVuGcXG1A--kO-or16OXgQj9kTwCLcB/s1600/Le_phare-_par_Victor_Hugo.jpg

> Shame Julia Rose couldn't convince Vintage to let her translate the title as "Poor Bastards", heh.

Am reading the new penguin classics translation where they have translated the title - The Wretched - which has probably confused a lot of people. (Cover does use the French name in small underneath tbf). (It's £2 as an ebook on Amazon, but has 64 pages of TOC due to the way the footnotes are done, crazy. Free on Project Gutenberg in a much older translation, of course)

Just started volume 2, Cosette. Was Hugo paid by the word?

Also, people seem annoyed at the modern language in the Rose version, greasy spoon etc.

New woodcut cover is nice too, with the red. Kindle version not so good as the red and black are too similar when converted to get. I had to tweak mine a bit (split it into volumes as well, and fixed the toc, using calibre, because that 1840 page count scared me a bit)

19 chapters of the Battle of Waterloo and a couple of paragraphs on the end to explain a hotel sign mentioned in passing 300 pages earlier...

finished this.

can't help but wonder what happened to the two youngest kids, the ones that spent a night in the elephant and were last seen stealing bread from a swan.

Since then I've read Toilers of the Sea, which was a page turner, the stranded ship bit.

And I've just finished The Man Who Laughs which could've been a novella rather than 600 pages. Based, at the beginning, in places we holidayed as kids, Portland Bill etc, so that was good.