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the_persian

Annotated edition quest...

I am looking for an annotated edition of Les Miserables in English.Is there one?
Orestes Fasting

Never found one. There are some pretty awesome French ones though.
the_persian

Unfortunately, I will take my first French lesson ever next week.

Thanks anyway.
Fantine

Of course someone could put a lot of effort into things and translate all the notes... OF? Wink
Luc

Fantine wrote:
Of course someone could put a lot of effort into things and translate all the notes... OF? Wink


What?
Fantine

musikal_geek wrote:
Fantine wrote:
Of course someone could put a lot of effort into things and translate all the notes... OF? Wink


What?


An annotated thingy is the book with all the "notes" in the back, right?
Jemibub

The best thing I can find so far is SPARKNOTES http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/lesmis/


It wasn't what you asked for as in heavily explained with side notes ((if they have one it'd be about three thousand pages)); but, it's the next best thing-----until someone finds something better lol.



Annotate books usually have:
LEFT PAGE - Notes, definitions, and explainations of the page on the right.
RIGHT PAGE - actual text of one page
Orestes Fasting

Fantine wrote:
Of course someone could put a lot of effort into things and translate all the notes... OF? Wink


http://seditious.frenchboys.net/book.html

If that ain't a lot of effort, I don't know what more you want from me. Wink

Honestly, that's most of the interesting stuff from Allem's annotated edition. Most of the rest was either:

1. Explanations for Hugo's many allusions and references to contemporary events, most of which could be replaced by some quality time with Google and Wikipedia;
2. Really really long digressions that nobody, not even me, cares enough about to type up;
3. "On page 432, paragraph 3, second sentence, the first draft had 'grinned' instead of 'smiled.'"
the_persian

Orestes, your efforts just made my day!
Orestes Fasting

the_persian wrote:
Orestes, your efforts just made my day!


Always glad to be of service. Very Happy One of these days, I will own an annotated edition instead of taking it out of the library like I did the Allem one... and then the fun will really begin.

(Incidentally, the Allem edition is quite heavily footnoted, though not quite to the point of one-page-notes/one-page-text. I seem to recall it being about two thousand pages.)
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