***Nobody's Boy * is a classic coming-of-age story by Hector Malot, and this edition includes the original four illustrations of the tale.**Inspired by the young street musicians from Italy who lived in Paris in the late 19th century, the titular 'Nobody's Boy' is Rémi, who was abandoned as a baby i...

***Nobody's Boy * is a classic coming-of-age story by Hector Malot, and this edition includes the original four illustrations of the tale.**Inspired by the young street musicians from Italy who lived in Paris in the late 19th century, the titular 'Nobody's Boy' is Rémi, who was abandoned as a baby in Paris. Taken in by the impoverished Jerome Barberin and his wife, he is given up at eight years old to a travelling artist known as Signor Vitalis. Vitalis is a great lover of animals, and travels with his faithful dogs and a monkey. Thus begin Rémi's adventures, where he grapples with hardship and adversities but remains determined to become an upstanding young man.

The book remains the best-known and most-treasured of Hector Malot's works, having been adapted for the stage, as an animated cartoon, and as a film. The tale gained particular popularity in Japan; introduced as a film entitled* Chibikko Remi to Meiken Kapi * by Toei Animation in 1970, it has since been readapted by other studios in the country.