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Is there anyone out there that can help me find a copy of this unabridged?
All the ones I am finding are simplified children's versions or are listed on sites I can't understand.
Or perhaps, is there anyone in France (or another country, like Canada) that would send this book to me? I do PayPal.
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Choobak should be able to get it for you. He's in Paris afterall.
I wish I was competent enough in French to read it in the original. The English translation I have has such beautiful language, I can only imagine how wonderful it must be in French.
Hugo was an amazing author.
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I don't know what the procedure is for ordering, but you can give it a go. I assume if you can read French, you should be able to navigate the site.
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I was just talking to someone the other day and they were trying to convince me that I should read this book in French.
I have good luck finding French books at www.amazon.fr. If you use amazon in English your account information transfers to this same site.
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Actually Lyrhawn, it was because the sites are in French that I am unable to understand them. I cannot read French. The book is for a close friend of mine that can.
Bob, I was actually hoping that Choobak would respond to this thread.
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Amazon and Barnes & Noble are the ones that are bringing up the children's versions. They are abridged (600-some pages). I'm looking for the full 1100-some pages.
I've read it in English. Once. Then I loaned it out and the person never returned it. I guess he liked it too.
For the record, that was the last book I ever loaned out to anyone but my mother.
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Give me an hour, I'll see if I can find it on Amazon France for you. I read French...fairly well. I'm not fluent, but half my family is French Canadian, and I've had French class for 6 years, I should know enough.
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Wow, this is proving rather difficult. Most of the amazon.fr results are either volumes (tomes), extracts (extraits) or abridged (abrégée), and the editions that don't say specifically look a little weird and shady. I think it was probably originally published in the volumes, because they each have titles of their own.
This edition looks pretty complete and snazzy, but it's 50 Euros.
I'll keep looking for you, but it looks like all of the current editions are only available as tomes. Do you have a good used bookstore near you? If you do, cruise through their foreign language section, you just might get lucky.
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Here is a copy of that Gallimard edition, used, for 43 Euros. I don't know if you're up for spending that much, though.
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Hmm... after searching a couple Canadian sites, it looks like that used edition at amazon.fr marketplace is the best price. The ISBN shows up on half.com but the description says it's an audio book, not the Gallimard edition. If you want it unabridged with all the tomes, I think that's your best bet.
If you want to get multiple volumes and don't mind paperback, I think this and this are your best bets.
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When I went on my trip to Paris, the only Souvenier I bought was a three-volume complete edition of Les Mis in French.
No, I don't read or speak a word of French, and I later found the exact same editions in the foreign language section at a New Jersey borders.
I have it so that, some day, when I HAVE taught myself French, I'll have an edition of it sitting here waiting for me. Javert's story in particular has influenced the way I view the world in some surprising ways. I can't wait to be able to read it in it's most pure form some day.
I'll also note my souvenier from London was a hardcover copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". Dudley's First Word I find much more funny in the original British ("Shan't!" as opposed to the Amerenglish, "Won't!")
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Choobak, we're lucky to have you here. You're sweet, kind, thoughtful, and charming. You're an absolute delight to have around. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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I have bought it : Three volumes (the complete text). I cannot send it today, because we are the week end. I'll send you Monday.
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I got them!!! Thank you SO much!! I already gave them to my friend and she almost started crying. Thank you Choobak!
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I'm still working on getting you a postcard. The only ones I am finding have pigs and cows on them and I don't want you to think that is all we have to offer in the midwest.
Oh and I clicked on your blog, but I just wanted to let you know that I would read if I could. Posts: 2064 | Registered: Dec 2003
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Must i translate my blog ? Ouch ! Hard to do ! I'll try to mix an english post with a french post...
And I don't know there are cows in the midwest... i though there are just pigs... Whatever it will be, i'll like it Posts: 1189 | Registered: Dec 2004
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Just kidding. I read LM in a classical Hebrew translation (it was rumourd to be a masterpiece, and by Lord God it was. Better than half the good books that are today writtn in Hebrew). I ought to read it in English, though.
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But Victor Hugo's writing lose much in a translated version than in french. Some writer is difficult to traduct. He is.
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