Les Misérables

Volume I: Fantine

Book I: A Just Man

II: M. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome

III: A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop

IV: Works Corresponding to Words

V: Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long

VI: Who Guarded His House for Him

VIII: Philosophy After Drinking

IX: The Brother as Depicted by the Sister

X: The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light

XI: A Restriction

XII: The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome

XIII: What He Believed

XIV: What He Thought

Book II: The Fall

I: The Evening of a Day of Walking

II: Prudence Counselled to Wisdom

III: The Heroism of Passive Obedience

IV: Details Concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier

V: Tranquillity

VI: Jean Valjean

VII: The Interior of Despair

VIII: Billows and Shadows

IX: New Troubles

X: The Man Aroused

XI: What He Does

XII: The Bishop Works

XIII: Little Gervais

Book III: In the Year 1817

I: The Year 1817

II: A Double Quartette

III: Four and Four

IV: Tholomyès Is So Merry That He Sings a Spanish Ditty

V: At Bombarda’s

VI: A Chapter in Which They Adore Each Other

VII: The Wisdom of Tholomyès

VIII: The Death of a Horse

IX: A Merry End to Mirth

Book IV: To Confide Is Sometimes to Deliver Into a Person’s Power

I: One Mother Meets Another Mother

II: First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures

Book V: The Descent

I: The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets

III: Sums Deposited with Laffitte

IV: M. Madeleine in Mourning

V: Vague Flashes on the Horizon

VI: Father Fauchelevent

VII: Fauchelevent Becomes a Gardener in Paris

VIII: Madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs on Morality

IX: Madame Victurnien’s Success

X: Result of the Success

XI: Christus Nos Liberavit

XII: M. Bamatabois’s Inactivity

XIII: The Solution of Some Questions Connected with the Municipal Police

Book VI: Javert

I: The Beginning of Repose

II: How Jean May Become Champ

Book VII: The Champmathieu Affair

I: Sister Simplice

II: The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire

III: A Tempest in a Skull

IV: Forms Assumed by Suffering During Sleep

VI: Sister Simplice Put to the Proof

VII: The Traveller on His Arrival Takes Precautions for Departure

VIII: An Entrance by Favor

IX: A Place Where Convictions Are in Process of Formation

X: The System of Denials

XI: Champmathieu More and More Astonished

Book VIII: A Counterblow

I: In What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair

II: Fantine Happy

III: Javert Satisfied

IV: Authority Reasserts Its Rights

V: A Suitable Tomb

Volume II: Cosette

Book I: Waterloo

I: What Is Met with on the Way from Nivelles

III: The Eighteenth of June, 1815

V: The Quid Obscurum of Battles

VI: Four O’Clock in the Afternoon

VII: Napoleon in a Good Humor

VIII: The Emperor Puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste

IX: The Unexpected

X: The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean

XI: A Bad Guide to Napoleon; A Good Guide to Bülow

XIII: The Catastrophe

XIV: The Last Square

XVI: Quot Libras in Duce?

XVII: Is Waterloo to Be Considered Good?

XVIII: A Recrudescence of Divine Right

XIX: The Battlefield at Night

Book II: The Ship Orion

I: Number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430

II: In Which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, Which Are of the Devil’s Composition, Possibly

III: The Ankle-Chain Must Have Undergone a Certain Preparatory Manipulation to Be Thus Broken with a Blow from a Hammer

Book III: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman

I: The Water Question at Montfermeil

II: Two Complete Portraits

III: Men Must Have Wine, and Horses Must Have Water

IV: Entrance on the Scene of a Doll

V: The Little One All Alone

VI: Which Possibly Proves Boulatruelle’s Intelligence

VII: Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark

VIII: The Unpleasantness of Receiving Into One’s House a Poor Man Who May Be a Rich Man

IX: Thénardier and His Manouvres

X: He Who Seeks to Better Himself May Render His Situation Worse

XI: Number 9,430 Reappears, and Cosette Wins It in the Lottery

Book IV: The Gorbeau Hovel

I: Master Gorbeau

II: A Nest for Owl and a Warbler

III: Two Misfortunes Make One Piece of Good Fortune

IV: The Remarks of the Principal Tenant

V: A Five-Franc Piece Falls on the Ground and Produces a Tumult

Book V: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack

I: The Zigzags of Strategy

II: It Is Lucky That the Pont d’Austerlitz Bears Carriages

III: To Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727

IV: The Gropings of Flight

V: Which Would Be Impossible with Gas Lanterns

VI: The Beginning of an Enigma

VII: Continuation of the Enigma

VIII: The Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious

IX: The Man with the Bell

X: Which Explains How Javert Got on the Scent

Book VI: Le Petit-Picpus

I: Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus

II: The Obedience of Martin Verga

III: Austerities

V: Distractions

VI: The Little Convent

VII: Some Silhouettes of This Darkness

VIII: Post Corda Lapides

IX: A Century Under a Guimpe

X: Origin of the Perpetual Adoration

XI: End of the Petit-Picpus

Book VII: Parenthesis

I: The Convent as an Abstract Idea

II: The Convent as an Historical Fact

III: On What Conditions One Can Respect the Past

IV: The Convent from the Point of View of Principles

VI: The Absolute Goodness of Prayer

VII: Precautions to Be Observed in Blame

VIII: Faith, Law

Book VIII: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them

I: Which Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent

II: Fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty

III: Mother Innocente

IV: In Which Jean Valjean Has Quite the Air of Having Read Austin Castillejo

V: It Is Not Necessary to Be Drunk in Order to Be Immortal

VI: Between Four Planks

VII: In Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don’t Lose the Card

VIII: A Successful Interrogatory

Volume III: Marius

Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom

II: Some of His Particular Characteristics

III: He Is Agreeable

IV: He May Be of Use

V: His Frontiers

VI: A Bit of History

VII: The Gamin Should Have His Place in the Classifications of India

VIII: In Which the Reader Will Find a Charming Saying of the Last King

IX: The Old Soul of Gaul

X: Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo

XI: To Scoff, to Reign

XII: The Future Latent in the People

XIII: Little Gavroche

Book II: The Great Bourgeois

I: Ninety Years and Thirty-Two Teeth

II: Like Master, Like House

III: Luc-Esprit

IV: A Centenarian Aspirant

V: Basque and Nicolette

VI: In Which Magnon and Her Two Children Are Seen

VII: Rule: Receive No One Except in the Evening

VIII: Two Do Not Make a Pair

Book III: The Grandfather and the Grandson

I: An Ancient Salon

II: One of the Red Spectres of That Epoch

III: Requiescant

IV: End of the Brigand

V: The Utility of Going to Mass, in Order to Become a Revolutionist

VI: The Consequences of Having Met a Warden

VII: Some Petticoat

VIII: Marble Against Granite

Book IV: The Friends of the A.B.C.

I: A Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic

II: Blondeau’s Funeral Oration by Bossuet

III: Marius’ Astonishments

IV: The Back Room of the Café Musain

V: Enlargement of Horizon

VI: Res Angusta

Book V: The Excellence of Misfortune

I: Marius Indigent

II: Marius Poor

III: Marius Grown Up

V: Poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery

VI: The Substitute

Book VI: The Conjunction of Two Stars

I: The Sobriquet: Mode of Formation of Family Names

II: Lux Facta Est

III: Effect of the Spring

IV: Beginning of a Great Malady

V: Divers Claps of Thunder Fall on Ma’am Bougon

VI: Taken Prisoner

VII: Adventures of the Letter U Delivered Over to Conjectures

VIII: The Veterans Themselves Can Be Happy

Book VII: Patron Minette

I: Mines and Miners

II: The Lowest Depths

III: Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse

IV: Composition of the Troupe

Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man

I: Marius, While Seeking a Girl in a Bonnet, Encounters a Man in a Cap

II: Treasure Trove

III: Quadrifrons

IV: A Rose in Misery

V: A Providential Peephole

VI: The Wild Man in His Lair

VII: Strategy and Tactics

VIII: The Ray of Light in the Hovel

IX: Jondrette Comes Near Weeping

X: Tariff of Licensed Cabs: Two Francs an Hour

XI: Offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness

XII: The Use Made of M. Leblanc’s Five-Franc Piece

XIII: Solus Cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabuntur Orare Pater Noster

XIV: In Which a Police Agent Bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer

XV: Jondrette Makes His Purchases

XVI: In Which Will Be Found the Words to an English Air Which Was in Fashion in 1832

XVII: The Use Made of Marius’ Five-Franc Piece

XVIII: Marius’ Two Chairs Form a Vis-a-Vis

XIX: Occupying One’s Self with Obscure Depths

XXI: One Should Always Begin by Arresting the Victims

XXII: The Little One Who Was Crying in Volume Two

Volume IV: The Idyl in the Rue Plumet and the Epic in the Rue Saint-Denis

Book I: A Few Pages of History

II: Badly Sewed

III: Louis Philippe

IV: Cracks Beneath the Foundation

V: Facts Whence History Springs and Which History Ignores

VI: Enjolras and His Lieutenants

Book II: Éponine

I: The Lark’s Meadow

II: Embryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons

III: Apparition to Father Mabeuf

IV: An Apparition to Marius

Book III: The House in the Rue Plumet

I: The House with a Secret

II: Jean Valjean as a National Guard

III: Foliis Ac Frondibus

IV: Change of Gate

V: The Rose Perceives That It Is an Engine of War

VI: The Battle Begun

VII: To One Sadness Oppose a Sadness and a Half

VIII: The Chain-Gang

Book IV: Succor from Below May Turn Out to Be Succor from on High

I: A Wound Without, Healing Within

II: Mother Plutarque Finds No Difficulty in Explaining a Phenomenon

Book V: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning

I: Solitude and the Barracks Combined

II: Cosette’s Apprehensions

III: Enriched with Commentaries by Toussaint

IV: A Heart Beneath a Stone

V: Cosette After the Letter

VI: Old People Are Made to Go Out Opportunely

Book VI: Little Gavroche

I: The Malicious Playfulness of the Wind

II: In Which Little Gavroche Extracts Profit from Napoleon the Great

III: The Vicissitudes of Flight

Book VII: Slang

III: Slang Which Weeps and Slang Which Laughs

IV: The Two Duties: To Watch and to Hope

Book VIII: Enchantments and Desolations

II: The Bewilderment of Perfect Happiness

III: The Beginning of Shadow

IV: A Cab Runs in English and Barks in Slang

V: Things of the Night

VI: Marius Becomes Practical Once More to the Extent of Giving Cosette His Address

VII: The Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each Other

Book IX: Whither Are They Going?

I: Jean Valjean

Book X: The 5th of June, 1832

I: The Surface of the Question

II: The Root of the Matter

III: A Burial; An Occasion to Be Born Again

IV: The Ebullitions of Former Days

V: Originality of Paris

Book XI: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane

I: Some Explanations with Regard to the Origin of Gavroche’s Poetry

II: Gavroche on the March

III: Just Indignation of a Hairdresser

IV: The Child Is Amazed at the Old Man

Book XII: Corinthe

I: History of Corinthe from Its Foundation

II: Preliminary Gayeties

III: Night Begins to Descend Upon Grantaire

IV: An Attempt to Console the Widow Hucheloup

V: Preparations

VII: The Man Recruited in the Rue des Billettes

VIII: Many Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain le Cabuc

Book XIII: Marius Enters the Shadow

I: From the Rue Plumet to the Quartier Saint-Denis

II: An Owl’s View of Paris

III: The Extreme Edge

Book XIV: The Grandeurs of Despair

I: The Flag: Act First

II: The Flag: Act Second

III: Gavroche Would Have Done Better to Accept Enjolras’ Carbine

IV: The Barrel of Powder

V: End of the Verses of Jean Prouvaire

VI: The Agony of Death After the Agony of Life

VII: Gavroche as a Profound Calculator of Distances

Book XV: The Rue de l’Homme Armé

I: A Drinker Is a Babbler

II: The Street Urchin an Enemy of Light

III: While Cosette and Toussaint Are Asleep

IV: Gavroche’s Excess of Zeal

Volume V: Jean Valjean

Book I: The War Between Four Walls

I: The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla

II: What Is to Be Done in the Abyss if One Does Not Converse

III: Light and Shadow

IV: Minus Five, Plus One

V: The Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a Barricade

VI: Marius Haggard, Javert Laconic

VII: The Situation Becomes Aggravated

VIII: The Artillerymen Compel People to Take Them Seriously

IX: Employment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That Infallible Marksmanship Which Influenced the Condemnation of 1796

XI: The Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One

XII: Disorder a Partisan of Order

XIII: Passing Gleams

XIV: Wherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras’ Mistress

XV: Gavroche Outside

XVI: How from a Brother One Becomes a Father

XVII: Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat

XVIII: The Vulture Become Prey

XIX: Jean Valjean Takes His Revenge

XX: The Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the Wrong

XXI: The Heroes

XXII: Foot to Foot

XXIII: Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk

Book II: The Intestine of the Leviathan

I: The Land Impoverished by the Sea

II: Ancient History of the Sewer

V: Present Progress

VI: Future Progress

Book III: Mud but the Soul

I: The Sewer and Its Surprises

II: Explanation

III: The “Spun” Man

IV: He Also Bears His Cross

V: In the Case of Sand as in That of Woman, There Is a Fineness Which Is Treacherous

VII: One Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is Disembarking

VIII: The Torn Coattail

IX: Marius Produces on Some One Who Is a Judge of the Matter, the Effect of Being Dead

X: Return of the Son Who Was Prodigal of His Life

XI: Concussion in the Absolute

XII: The Grandfather

Book IV: Javert Derailed

Book V: Grandson and Grandfather

I: In Which the Tree with the Zinc Plaster Appears Again

II: Marius, Emerging from Civil War, Makes Ready for Domestic War

III: Marius Attacked

IV: Mademoiselle Gillenormand Ends by No Longer Thinking It a Bad Thing That M. Fauchelevent Should Have Entered with Something Under His Arm

V: Deposit Your Money in a Forest Rather Than with a Notary

VI: The Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own Fashion, to Render Cosette Happy

VII: The Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happiness

VIII: Two Men Impossible to Find

Book VI: The Sleepless Night

I: The 16th of February, 1833

II: Jean Valjean Still Wears His Arm in a Sling

III: The Inseparable

IV: The Immortal Liver

Book VII: The Last Draught from the Cup

I: The Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven

II: The Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Contain

Book VIII: Fading Away of the Twilight

I: The Lower Chamber

II: Another Step Backwards

III: They Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumet

IV: Attraction and Extinction

Book IX: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn

I: Pity for the Unhappy, but Indulgence for the Happy

II: Last Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil

III: A Pen Is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent’s Cart

IV: A Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whitening

V: A Night Behind Which There Is Day

VI: The Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces

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Les Misérables

By Victor Hugo.

Translated by Isabel Hapgood.

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