《苦儿流浪记》的英文名和主人公的英文名及书的内容简介

Sans Famille (Translation: Without family English title: Nobody's boy) is an 1878 French novel by Hector Malot. Most recent english translation is "Alone in the World" by AJ de Bruyn, 2007. Plot First Volume Jerome Barberin lives with his wife in a little French town, Chavanon. He usually isn't home, since he works in Paris as a mason. One day he finds a baby boy. The boy wears very fine clothes, so apparently his parents are rich. Barberin offers to take care of the child, hoping to get a good reward. He gives the boy to his wife, and calls him Remi.Afterwards, Barberin gets injured in an accident. He blames his employer and hopes to receive financial compensation in a trial. The trial costs a lot of money, and Barberin tells his wife to sell her cow (her main source of wealth) and to get rid of Remi. She does the former.When Remi is eight years old, Barberin comes home unexpectedly. He sees that Remi is still there and decides to lose no time getting rid of him. The next day Barberin meets a travelling artist in the local pub. His name is Signor Vitalis, and he travels through France with three dogs - Capi, Zerbino and Dolce - and a monkey, Joli-C?0?4ur. Vitalis offers to take care of Remi and Remi leaves his childhood home, without even a chance to say goodbye to his foster mother (who would have done anything to prevent the transaction) and starts a journey of the roads of France. It turns out that Vitalis is a kind man, certainly better company than Barberin. Vitalis teaches him to play the harp and to read. Often Remi is hungry and has no roof over his head; but in the animals, especially in Capi, he gains dear friends, and in Vitalis he finds the father he lacks. Together they travel through France, and they earn a living by giving musical and stage performances. The background of this situation is a very common practice of XIX century: italian wandering music companies coming almost exclusively from the Duchy of Parma and later from Molise and Lucania, travelling and performing round the largest cities of Europe.When they are in Toulouse, a sad incident lands Vitalis into jail. It is not easy for a ten-year-old to feed himself and four animals under his care, and they nearly starve, when they meet the "Swan" - a little river ship owned by Mrs. Milligan and her ill son Arthur. They take Remi in to entertain the sick boy, but soon start seeing a person in Remi, and he becomes part of the family. He learns that Arthur used to have an elder brother, who disappeared before Arthur was born, and Mrs. Milligan's brother-in-law, James, has attempted in vain to find him back. This was advantageous for James Milligan, since, by the English law, he was to inherit all of his brother's fortune if he died childless. This did not work, because soon Arthur was born. After two months Vitalis is released from jail, Remi and the Milligans like to stay together, but Vitalis wants Remi back, and so they say goodbye. However, Mrs. Milligan judges that Vitalis is a very kind and honest man.Vitalis tells Remi that he has done a good choice: one must eat his own bread. But on the way to Paris in a snowstorm Zerbino and Dolce are eaten by wolves and Joli-C?0?4ur catches pneumonia. In an attempt to raise money for the doctor, Remi and Vitalis give a performance and Vitalis sings. Remi has never before heard Vitalis sing so beautifully. And not only Remi is bewildered: a young, and apparently rich lady tells Vitalis that she is amazed to hear his wonderful voice. Vitalis reacts angrily. He explains his skill to the lady by telling that he used to be a singer's servant. The lady explains he has a resemblance to the singer Vitalo Pedrotti from the Scala di Milano who had disappeared. He shows no gladness when the lady gives a gold coin to Capi. When they return to Joli-C?0?4ur with the money, it's too late; Joli-C?0?4ur is dead.They now continue their journey to Paris. Vitalis decides to leave Remi with a "padrone" for the winter, while he trains other animals. Another institution of 19th Century France, a "padrone" was a man who kept a group of boys, sold by their poverty-stricken parents, who worked for him. Vitalis brings Remi to a "padrone" he knows - Garofoli. Garofoli isn't home, and Vitalis tells Remi to wait there, and that he will be back soon. Remi passes there two horrible hours - waiting for Garofoli and talking to an ill-looking boy, Mattia, who keeps houseworking because Garofoli believes him too stupid and incapable of working outside, but keeping the soup pot locked so that Mattia could not eat from it. When the other boys and Garofoli return, Remi witnesses how terribly Garofoli abuses those who do not bring home the amount of money required: he beats and starves them. When Vitalis comes back and sees how the boys are being flogged, he tells Garofoli that he could go to the police, but Garofoli threatens back to tell "some people just one name which will make Vitalis red from shame". Vitalis takes the wondering and grateful Remi who is not to return to Garofoli ever again.But this act of love costs Vitalis his life. That night, unable to find a place to stay, Vitalis and Remi collapse in the snowstorm under a fence.Remi wakes up in a bed, with people standing around him: a man, two boys and two girls. The little girl, of about 5-6 years old, watches Remi with talking eyes. Then Remi learns the terrible truth: Vitalis is dead. In an attempt to discover his identity, the policemen take Remi to Garofoli, who reveals the truth: Vitalis used to be the famous Italian singer Carlo Balzani. When he got older, his voice got worse, and he was so ashamed for this that he decided to disappear. He changed his identity to Vitalis.The family take Remi and Capi in. Remi gets a real father, the gardener Pierre Acquin, two brothers, Alexis and Benjamin, and two sisters, ?0?7tienette and little mute Lise. Remi especially adores Lise. He teaches her to read and plays the harp for her. Lise loves a Napolitan song in particular. Remi becomes a gardener. But two years later, a terrible hailstrom ruins the glass in the greenhouse, and Acquin is in debts which he cannot pay and has therefore to enter a debt jail. The children go to aunts and uncles. Although the children insist that Remi also belongs to the family, none of the uncles and aunts is willing to take care of Remi. Broken-hearted again, vowing to his brothers and sisters to visit them on his way and bring father news from them, Remi takes his harp and Capi and leaves to the big roads.