Some of the books on this page are modern titlles translated specifically for Mondial. Other books are reprints of older translations of classics that had been out of print on the English-language book market for a very long time...
Translations
Fiction translated from various languages into English...
The Man Who Laughs (L'Homme qui rit)
By Victor Hugo.
568 pages. ISBN 9781595690135.
A Historical Novel: Nothing could be more happily imagined than the adventures of Gwynplaine, the itinerant mountebank, snatched suddenly out of his little way of life, and installed without preparation as one of the hereditary legislators of a great country. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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The Prophet from Pedras
By Gersi Alfredo Bays.
(Transl. into English by Trevor Steele)
192 pages. ISBN 9781595692702.
A Novel: In the1930's in Brazil, a non-practicing Jew nicknamed "Prophet" moves to the small town of Pedras at the Uruguay River. Family, friends, and his optimism help him become one of Pedras' most respected citizens, until one day bandits show up...
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Reluctant Messiah
By Trevor Steele.
292 pages. ISBN 9781595691736.
Jesus' death - "triumph of a glorious illusion". His "resurrection" - a plot by Kaiaphas gone wrong.
This novel, based on a large amount of research, seeks to explore Jesus' actual life before he became an object of deification and falsification.
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Crusoes in Siberia
By Tivadar Soros.
132 pages. ISBN 9781595691828.
A Novel: If you want to know where the brothers Paul and George Soros got their business skills, look no further than this little adventure story told by their father: Tivadar Soros tells how he and his companions broke out of their Siberian prisoner-of-war camp at the time of the Russian Revolution...
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Ninety-Three ('93)
By Victor Hugo.
312 pages. ISBN 9781595690920.
Historical Novel: 1793, during the French revolution: "Can a good action be a bad action? Does not he who spares the wolf kill the sheep?" This question meets with one answer after another during the course of the book. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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Bug-Jargal
By Victor Hugo
140 pages. ISBN 9781595690951.
A Novel: It describes the friendship between the enslaved African prince Bug-Jargal and Leopold D'Auverney, a French military officer, during the slave revolt in Santo Domingo of August, 1791, that would eventually lead to the creation of the republic of Haiti in 1804.
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