A compelling adaptation of 'Les Misérables' which focuses on Gavroche's story. Faithful in spirit to the themes of Victor Hugo's masterpiece, M.C. Pyle's intricate plot changes conclude in an original ending with a different fate for Gavroche and his companions.
This fully annotated edition of M.C. Pyle's classic adaptation ' The Gamin of Paris' of historical contextLiterary criticism
Margaret Churchman Painter Pyle wrote stories and poems for the children's magazines St. Nicholas, Harper's Young People, and The Little Messenger. Her translations of Victor Hugo (an adaptation called Gavroche: The Gamin of Paris) and Voltaire's Zadig were serialized in the Delaware State Journal.
She was the mother of Howard and Katharine Pyle and mother-in-law of Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle. Originally Quakers, she and her family left the Wilmington Friends for the Swedenborg Church of the Holy City of the New Jerusalem in 1862.