#wraxall

Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Bristol, North Somerset, United Kingdom,

Tyntesfield,a Victorian Gothic Revival country house and estate near Wraxall, North Somerset, England.

The publisher of the American copyright translation, in issuing this extraordinary low-priced edition, takes occasion to warn booksellers, as well as the public, to be particular in ordering CARLETON'S UNABRIDGED EDITION, or they may have foisted upon them a lately published abridged British translation, both badly translated, and omitting a large portion of the original, in deference to British and Romanist prejudices. The most remarkable chapters in the whole work, such as that entitled "Cambronne;" the most remarkable book, the magnificent and unsparing denunciation of the Convent; the finest poems, such as Fantine's Cradle Song and Jean Prouvaire's Rhymes; the grandest prose and the most difficult to translate, such as the chapter in Fantine entitled "The Waters and the Shadows"; even the sublime Preface of Victor Hugo - all are among the large portion of the original omitted by Wraxall in his British abridgment. The Paris and American editions contain...365 chapters The Wraxall abridged edition contains...279 chapters Difference....86 chapters.