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Welcome to the website for "The Les Misérables Reading Companion," where you'll find all the episodes of this podcast about Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, plus extras relating to what I've discussed there. 

This page is a work in progress. Come back early and often for updates!

The comment function on this page was giving us trouble--comments disappearing, that sort of thing--so I've shut it off...

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I still very much look forward to reading your comments! (Unless you're a troll; I will exercise ruthless editorial authority when it comes to trolls!)

 

Sep 18, 2018

Places where we do, and don't, want to see roses.

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Episode 35 extras

Sep 18, 2018

All we have in extras again today is maps: our Google map, with the three new houses on it, and maps from 1823 and 1830 to compare it...

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Sep 11, 2018

What can we make of the fallout from the ambush?

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Episode 34 extras

Sep 11, 2018

Since we've mentioned The Sorrow of Young Werther again, here is a link to the text in English.

And we have a few new places on our Google map, many of which will make more sense on the 1823...

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Sep 4, 2018

An overview of the July Revolution, and some other bit-picture stuff.

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