Les Misérables
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Difference between editions
Will
Jun 16, 2014 03:59AM
Can someone explain how different this version is from https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... ??? I'm really confused, I ended up buying the latter one with less pages.
I read the unabridged version and would recommend the abridged. Hugo spends some time, on a few occasions, writing about topics that do not advance the narrative. I did not mind it but I knew that, if anyone asked, I would recommend the abridged version.
Abridged means stuff taken out. Hugo has a lot of extra chapters on things like Waterloo and the Paris sewers.
I agree with the others. Abridged means parts were edited out. I read the book in French though so do not know the details for the particular versions after that.
Someone at Simon and Schuster must have been asleep at the wheel there for a while... they definitely did put "Complete and Unabridged" on an Enriched Classics edition of Les Miserables that was absolutely NOT complete and unabridged! At some point the mistake on the cover was fixed; it no longer claims to be the complete novel.
Meanwhile, the Barnes & Noble abridged version still spells the translator's name wrong on the cover. I guess publishers just aren't necessarily careful when reissuing old public-domain texts. It's not like the author can complain!
To help people learn about all the different editions of translated books and find copies of them, I built We Love Translations: World Literature in English. Here's my page about Les Miserables.
https://welovetranslations.com/2021/0...
Meanwhile, the Barnes & Noble abridged version still spells the translator's name wrong on the cover. I guess publishers just aren't necessarily careful when reissuing old public-domain texts. It's not like the author can complain!
To help people learn about all the different editions of translated books and find copies of them, I built We Love Translations: World Literature in English. Here's my page about Les Miserables.
https://welovetranslations.com/2021/0...
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