Los Trabajadores de la mar [Les Travailleurs de la mer]. Traduccion Mexicana.

Bookseller Notes

Scarce not on WorldCat, but a copy recorded at the Biblioteca Nacional de Mxico. Published in the same year as the first edition (that published in Belgium); an edition in Spanish, translated by Antonio Ribot, was also published in Madrid the translator here is uncredited. Another copy, previously on the market, included a frontispiece portrait of the author here removed; present, though, are the three illustrations seemingly original to this edition, by Mexican artist Constantino Escalante.Published during the Second Franco-Mexican War, the receptiveness there to one of the invading country's major authors can be explained by Hugo at this stage being in political exile for his opposition to Napoleon III in Guernsey, where the novel is set and to whose people it is dedicated; its 'resistance' credentials reinforced by the presence of the work of Escalante, who was an outspoken opponent of the French forces.