This story about a teenage boy and his family, left homeless and destitute after the death of the father, describes how success and fulfillment naturally arises from living a Christ-centered life regardless of the hardships and setbacks of the world in which we live. Translated from the French and published in 1853 by The Religious Tract Society in London at the height of their commercial success as a publishing house, the novel was intended for what we now call the "young adult" market—with an entertaining story seasoned with a moral in every chapter.
Preparing old books for digital publication is a labor of love at Travelyn Publishing. We hold our digital versions of public domain books up against any others with no fear of the comparison. Our conversion work is meticulous, utilizing a process designed to eliminate errors, maximize reader enjoyment, and recreate as much as possible the atmosphere of the original book even as we are adding the navigation and formatting necessary for a good digital book. While remaining faithful to a writer's original words, and the spellings and usages of his era, we are not above correcting obvious mistakes. If the printer became distracted after placing an 'a' at the end of a line and then placed another 'a' at the beginning of the next line (they used to do this stuff by hand you know!), what sort of mindless robots would allow that careless error to be preserved for all eternity in the digital version, too? Not us. That's why we have the audacity to claim that our re-publications are often better than the originals.
