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konrads · 04-09-2010, 04:03 AM

@SmartyPants: I was surprised nobody mentioned it either. Sure, the English language has its own 'orphan' story in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, but Sans Famille has always come across as far superior to that story. Characters like Vitalis, well, you don't see them that often.

@vivaldirules: The book was written in 1878, the copy I read was at my grandmother's and at least several decades old - the cover was worn and torn. One thing it didn't have was illustrations.

On Gutenberg, there does seem to be an EPUB and Mobipocket version of the book with images: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25102

Note that the title 'Sans Famille' was translated as 'Nobody's Boy' there (opposed to the literal 'Without Family' Wikipedia claimed). Huh. Apparently Malot wrote a novel 'En Familly' as well, translated as 'Nobody's Girl'. That's gotten me curious, anybody read that one?

I checked the ePub version out, the images are there, but there don't seem to be that much.

You know, there's one good thing to be said about e-books: it makes Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment more readable. (Or maybe that's just poor judgement on the publisher of my hardcover.)

04-09-2010, 04:03 AM	#253
konrads Member Posts: 15 Karma: 34 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: BeBook Mini	@SmartyPants: I was surprised nobody mentioned it either. Sure, the English language has its own 'orphan' story in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, but Sans Famille has always come across as far superior to that story. Characters like Vitalis, well, you don't see them that often. @vivaldirules: The book was written in 1878, the copy I read was at my grandmother's and at least several decades old - the cover was worn and torn. One thing it didn't have was illustrations. On Gutenberg, there does seem to be an EPUB and Mobipocket version of the book with images: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25102 Note that the title 'Sans Famille' was translated as 'Nobody's Boy' there (opposed to the literal 'Without Family' Wikipedia claimed). Huh. Apparently Malot wrote a novel 'En Familly' as well, translated as 'Nobody's Girl'. That's gotten me curious, anybody read that one? I checked the ePub version out, the images are there, but there don't seem to be that much. You know, there's one good thing to be said about e-books: it makes Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment more readable. (Or maybe that's just poor judgement on the publisher of my hardcover.)