THE MISERIES OF LONDON (Les Misères de Londres): THE ROCAMBOLE SAGA · BOOK SEVEN· PART I: 21 - Softcover

Ponson Du Terrail, Pierre-Alexis; E.V. Hamett, Sofia

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798194434923

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Night Workers publishes lost popular fiction in fresh, modern English. This book is part of our ongoing series bringing the Rocambole adventures — among the most widely read thrillers of nineteenth-century Europe — to readers who have never had them in English before.
The Rocambole saga first appeared as a newspaper serial in Paris in 1857. Its hero — a criminal turned avenger whose schemes were so audacious that his name gave French a word, rocambolesque, for the wildly improbable — kept readers hooked from instalment to instalment, much as audiences today follow a long-running series. These translations are based on the original public-domain serials by Ponson du Terrail.
Rocambole's adventures move to the fog and squalor of Victorian London. Under the alias of the Grey Man, the reformed outlaw wages war on the city's predators — chief among them the baby-farmer Mrs Fanoche, who traffics in stolen and unwanted children, and the ruthless Lord Palmure. With the Cockney rogue Shocking at his side, the Grey Man fights to save a hunted Irishwoman and a kidnapped boy from London's cruellest trades. This opening volume is the prologue, 'The Baby-Farmer.'
Our aim throughout is readability. Rather than reproduce the clipped, one-sentence-per-line style of the original serial, Sofia E.V. Hamett has rendered these novels into the natural English of a modern thriller: faithful to the plot, the characters and the events, but written to feel alive to a reader today. Nothing has been abridged.
This is the first volume of The Miseries of London; the story continues directly in the next volume.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798194434923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 183