15/366 Wednesday is anticipating reading

[ironymaiden]

i got myself a copy of Les Misérables with a holiday gift card, it arrived today.

i've bounced off it a few times but i want to have read it. after wussing out on reading it en français (it's not the difficulty so much as the size of the project) i pursued the Christine Donougher translation. getting a specific translation of a public domain book is a pain in the ass. my libraries didn't seem to have it and amazon blends all the listings together in a frustrating way. i really would have preferred to have an ebook (it's over 1200 pages, which is hard on my hands) but i couldn't be confident that i would get the desired edition. i'm not even sure there is an ebook of this translation.

it looks pretty. i'm excited.

Comments

[sartorias]

Stand by for fascinating side trips. (I actually liked those better than the novel itself, which is absorbing enough.)

[phosfate]

The Amazon Kindle listing for the penguin edition shows a public domain digital edition that I wouldn't touch with a fork. But if you can carry it, Penguin or Oxford are usually your best choices.

The Signet edition that coincided with the musical is the one I read back in the day, supposed to be uncut, and the paperback has mercifully large type. Though it's a fat little mofo, the paper is thin so it won't hurt as much as it could, and you can still kill stuff with it. It's also availble for kindle: https://smile.amazon.com/Miserables-Mis%C3%A9rables-Victor-Hugo-ebook/dp/B00C5QZCK0/ref=pd_sim_351_1/130-2195986-9311222?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00C5QZCK0&pd_rd_r=d5b08c1d-0f7a-46cf-8ec6-d1b2c391bf85&pd_rd_w=2eybL&pd_rd_wg=Kew5Y&pf_rd_p=04d27813-a1f2-4e7b-a32b-b5ab374ce3f9&pf_rd_r=01HZG9ABFA97BF9YY16J&psc=1&refRID=01HZG9ABFA97BF9YY16J

That whole Penguin series was pretty great, with the spiffy covers. I should get more of them, especially Keith Haring's diaries.