Les Misérables - undefined - victor.hugo - Newt

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

Start Reading

Get started with the first chapter

Progress

Sign in to keep track of your reading activity and effortlessly resume right where you left off.

Title

Les Misérables

Description

An escaped convict steals two candlesticks and uses the proceeds to redeem himself and become an honest man.

Published by victor.hugo

Composer AI

Ask Composer for insights, summaries, or ask questions about any part of this book

Share

This book is currently public and you can share it

Download Newt

Take Les Misérables with you