Les Misérables is perhaps best known as a stage musical and a film from 2012 starring Hugh Jackman, but the moving story was originally a novel written by Victor Hugo, which at 1,900 pages in its original French is approximately four times longer than the average Harry Potter book. First published in 1862, it is […]
In its 150 year history Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into 174 languages (in varying dialects). This includes every major language, a number of minor ones, some languages that are extinct and at least one that is invented. From Japanese, Korean, Arabic, to Emoji. Yes, really. We have arrived at a place where […]
In this new blog series, we’ll be taking a look at some famous novels which have been translated into and from the English language, beginning with Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. If you have any suggestions of novels you’d like us to discuss, or anything to add to the discussion, please leave a comment in […]
