An Unexpected Find
The other day I finally checked out a farmer’s market that’s started up nearby, and brought back (of all things) a hardcover of Les Misérables from the local Friends of the Library booth. (Yes, I got food too. No, not from the library.) It’s the Modern Library edition of Charles Wilbour’s 1862 translation, the same one that I’ve seen as an eBook.
Somehow I’d never gotten around to picking up Les Mis as a hardcover. In any translation. I’ve got the battered old Denny paperback of course, and the larger Donougher edition. The others I have, I’ve picked up as eBooks. The funny thing is, as a hardcover, it doesn’t seem oversized like it does in paperback. It’s about the same size, physically, as the average Wheel of Time novel (though it’s probably more words).
Anyway, it’s been about eight years since I last read the whole book. I started the Julie Rose translation at one point, but paused to read something else and didn’t get back to it. And I never did get around to reviewing Takahiro Arai’s four-volume manga adaptation. (It’s really good! But I do want to write about it in more detail.) Or the BBC miniseries, for that matter.
It may be time to read it again, in one form or another.
Website Moved
Since the last time I wrote here, I’ve moved most of my website over to KVibber.com. The old site will keep redirecting to the new one, but if you have it bookmarked or follow the RSS feed (and haven’t dropped it during the 3-year gap), you’ll probably want to update the URL.