Editing Les Misérables (section)

==English translations==
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* [[Charles E. Wilbour]]. New York: Carleton Publishing Company, June 1862. The first English translation. The first volume was available for purchase in New York beginning 7 June 1862.<ref name="translations">{{cite journal|last=Moore|first=Olin H.|title=Some Translations of ''Les Misérables''|journal=[[Modern Language Notes]]|date=March 1959 |volume=74 |issue=3 |pages=240–246 |doi=10.2307/3040282|jstor=3040282}}</ref> Also New York and London: [[George Routledge and Sons]], 1879.
* [[Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall|Lascelles Wraxall]]. London: [[Hurst and Blackett]], October 1862. The first British translation.<ref name=translations />
* Translator identified as "A.F." Richmond, Virginia, 1863. Published by West and Johnston publishers. The Editor's Preface announces its intention of correcting errors in Wilbour's translation. It said that some passages "exclusively intended for the French readers of the book" were being omitted, as well as "[a] few scattered sentences reflecting on slavery" because "the absence of a few antislavery paragraphs will hardly be complained of by Southern readers." Because of paper shortages in wartime, the passages omitted became longer with each successive volume.<ref name=translations />
* [[Isabel Florence Hapgood]]. Published 1887, this translation is available at [[Project Gutenberg]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/135 |title=Les Misérables by Victor Hugo – Project Gutenberg |via=Project Gutenberg|date=22 June 2008 |access-date=15 October 2009}}</ref>
* [[Norman Denny]]. [[Folio Society|Folio Press]], 1976. A modern British translation later re-published in paperback by Penguin Books, {{ISBN|0-14-044430-0}}. The translator explains in an introduction that he has placed two of the novel's longer digressive passages into appendices and made some minor abridgements in the text.
* Lee Fahnestock and Norman McAfee. [[New American Library|Signet Classics]]. 3 March 1987. An unabridged edition based on the Wilbour translation with its language modernized. Paperback {{ISBN|0-451-52526-4}}
* Julie Rose. 2007. [[Vintage Classics]], 3 July 2008. A new translation of the full work, with a detailed biographical sketch of Victor Hugo's life, a chronology, and notes. {{ISBN|978-0-09-951113-7}}
* Christine Donougher. [[Penguin Classics]], 7 November 2013. A new translation of the full work, with a detailed biographical sketch of Victor Hugo's life, a chronology, and notes. {{ISBN|978-0141393599}}