Les Misérables: Book 1, Chapter 2

10/06/22 • 53 min

How to Eat an Elephant: A Little Book Club for Large Books

This week we are at last introduced to Jean Valjean! The HEE team members discuss “The Fall” and try to pinpoint the conflict which will carry our protagonist throughout the rest of the novel.
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Les Misérables: Book 1, Chapter 1

Our journey begins! Ian, Emily, and Megan discuss “An Upright Man.” They unpack Monseigneur Bienvenu’s character and try to determine why Hugo began his novel from such an indirect angle.
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Les Misérables: Book 1, Chapters 3-4

n this episode, the HEE team walks through Fantine’s tragic backstory and tries to process that firehose of a chapter on “The Year 1817.”
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