The Les Misérables Reading Companion

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Ep32 - III,8,xvi-xxii - Dilemmas

Aug 30, 2018

Tricky moral questions abound.

Episode 32 extras

Aug 30, 2018

Nothing in particular for the extras this week, but here's a picture of Marius looking in on his neighbors, from the 1958 adaptation by Jean-Paul Le Chanois:

Ep31 - III,8,v-xv - Judas

Aug 21, 2018

Love, theatrics, and betrayal in the Gorbeau house.

Episode 31 extras

Aug 21, 2018

Here are the chapters of Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) that first brought us Hugo's spider metaphor, in French and in English (here and here).

The locations in this episode are not new to us, so they're already on our Google map, but you'll have look for them in the Part II layer.

And finally, here's a website with...

Ep30 - III,7,i - III,8,iv - Miners' Tools

Aug 7, 2018

We explore miners and their tools, and how they fit into Les Misérables.

Ep30 - III,7,i - III,8,iv - Miners' Tools

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