Great novels are often connected-to (or based-on) real-life events. It's fun to search-for (and uncover) those connections. This Collection features fictional stories with real-life tie-ins.
See the global trailer for Jurassic World, the latest installment in the Jurassic Park franchise.
See the global trailer for Jurassic World, the latest installment in the Jurassic Park franchise.
Harold Richmond, a philanthropist, grew-up loving Sir Thomas Clapperton’s "Wonderland" sculpture located in Oamaru, on New Zealand’s South Island.
Born on September 9, 1828, Leo Tolstoy was the writer of still-famous 19th-century Russian masterpieces. See him in this rare video from the Russian S...
Les Miserables is a massive novel, by Victor Hugo, perennially considered one of the world's best books.
This is episode two of Les Miserables.
Jean Valjean is the central character of Victor Hugo's ever-popular Les Miserables, but we don't really "meet him" until "Book Second" of Volume I.
Jean Valjean was imprisoned nineteen years - at hard labor - for breaking into a bakery, stealing a loaf of bread, then trying to escape from his life...
After the Bishop of Digne shows kindness to Jean Valjean, providing him with food and allowing him to spend the night without pay, Valjean steals the ...
In this audio clip, Carole Bos reads from Les Miserables, Volume I - Book Fifth ("The Descent") - Chapter VI (entitled "Father Fauchelevent").
In this audio clip, Carole Bos reads from Les Miserables, Volume I - Book Fifth ("The Descent") - Chapter VII (entitled "Fauchelevent Becomes a Garden...
In this audio clip, Carole Bos reads from Les Miserables, Volume I - Book Fifth ("The Descent") - Chapter XIII (entitled "The Solution of some Questio...
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