Episode 18 extras
Apr 24, 2018
Today's extras are heavily geographical:
Here, once again, is our Google map, now with layers organized by section in the text, to make it a bit easier to zero in on the markers that interest you.
And here, for reference in the much-changed Paris, is an 1823 map of the city. It is far less interactive, but if you're...
Ep17 - II,3,iv-viii - People You Might Meet in the Woods
Apr 17, 2018
We look more deeply into another of the novel's most famous scenes.
Episode 17 extras
Apr 17, 2018
Here are a few examples of artists' interpretations of Cosette with her pail. There are LOTS more images of Cosette here; the page is in French, and at the beginning it's about about the Poor Children's Dinners that Hugo hosted at his home in Guernsey. Scroll down a bit, and you'll begin to recognize Cosette.
1892, ...
Ep16 - II,2,i - II,3,iii - Fate, Hope, and Spiders
Apr 10, 2018
Caught in the web of fate, what reason is there for hope?
