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Les Misérables
Overview
1
Titlepage
2
Preface
3
Volume I: Fantine
4
Book I: A Just Man
5
I: M. Myriel
6
II: M. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome
7
III: A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop
8
IV: Works Corresponding to Words
9
V: Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long
10
VI: Who Guarded His House for Him
11
VII: Cravatte
12
VIII: Philosophy After Drinking
13
IX: The Brother as Depicted by the Sister
14
X: The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light
15
XI: A Restriction
16
XII: The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome
17
XIII: What He Believed
18
XIV: What He Thought
19
Book II: The Fall
20
I: The Evening of a Day of Walking
21
II: Prudence Counselled to Wisdom
22
III: The Heroism of Passive Obedience
23
IV: Details Concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier
24
V: Tranquillity
25
VI: Jean Valjean
26
VII: The Interior of Despair
27
VIII: Billows and Shadows
28
IX: New Troubles
29
X: The Man Aroused
30
XI: What He Does
31
XII: The Bishop Works
32
XIII: Little Gervais
33
Book III: In the Year 1817
34
I: The Year 1817
35
II: A Double Quartette
36
III: Four and Four
37
IV: Tholomyès Is So Merry That He Sings a Spanish Ditty
38
V: At Bombarda’s
39
VI: A Chapter in Which They Adore Each Other
40
VII: The Wisdom of Tholomyès
41
VIII: The Death of a Horse
42
IX: A Merry End to Mirth
43
Book IV: To Confide Is Sometimes to Deliver Into a Person’s Power
44
I: One Mother Meets Another Mother
45
II: First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures
46
III: The Lark
47
Book V: The Descent
48
I: The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets
49
II: Madeleine
50
III: Sums Deposited with Laffitte
51
IV: M. Madeleine in Mourning
52
V: Vague Flashes on the Horizon
53
VI: Father Fauchelevent
54
VII: Fauchelevent Becomes a Gardener in Paris
55
VIII: Madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs on Morality
56
IX: Madame Victurnien’s Success
57
X: Result of the Success
58
XI: Christus Nos Liberavit
59
XII: M. Bamatabois’s Inactivity
60
XIII: The Solution of Some Questions Connected with the Municipal Police
61
Book VI: Javert
62
I: The Beginning of Repose
63
II: How Jean May Become Champ
64
Book VII: The Champmathieu Affair
65
I: Sister Simplice
66
II: The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire
67
III: A Tempest in a Skull
68
IV: Forms Assumed by Suffering During Sleep
69
V: Hindrances
70
VI: Sister Simplice Put to the Proof
71
VII: The Traveller on His Arrival Takes Precautions for Departure
72
VIII: An Entrance by Favor
73
IX: A Place Where Convictions Are in Process of Formation
74
X: The System of Denials
75
XI: Champmathieu More and More Astonished
76
Book VIII: A Counterblow
77
I: In What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair
78
II: Fantine Happy
79
III: Javert Satisfied
80
IV: Authority Reasserts Its Rights
81
V: A Suitable Tomb
82
Volume II: Cosette
83
Book I: Waterloo
84
I: What Is Met with on the Way from Nivelles
85
II: Hougomont
86
III: The Eighteenth of June, 1815
87
IV: A
88
V: The Quid Obscurum of Battles
89
VI: Four O’Clock in the Afternoon
90
VII: Napoleon in a Good Humor
91
VIII: The Emperor Puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste
92
IX: The Unexpected
93
X: The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean
94
XI: A Bad Guide to Napoleon; A Good Guide to Bülow
95
XII: The Guard
96
XIII: The Catastrophe
97
XIV: The Last Square
98
XV: Cambronne
99
XVI: Quot Libras in Duce?
100
XVII: Is Waterloo to Be Considered Good?
101
XVIII: A Recrudescence of Divine Right
102
XIX: The Battlefield at Night
103
Book II: The Ship Orion
104
I: Number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430
105
II: In Which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, Which Are of the Devil’s Composition, Possibly
106
III: The Ankle-Chain Must Have Undergone a Certain Preparatory Manipulation to Be Thus Broken with a Blow from a Hammer
107
Book III: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman
108
I: The Water Question at Montfermeil
109
II: Two Complete Portraits
110
III: Men Must Have Wine, and Horses Must Have Water
111
IV: Entrance on the Scene of a Doll
112
V: The Little One All Alone
113
VI: Which Possibly Proves Boulatruelle’s Intelligence
114
VII: Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark
115
VIII: The Unpleasantness of Receiving Into One’s House a Poor Man Who May Be a Rich Man
116
IX: Thénardier and His Manouvres
117
X: He Who Seeks to Better Himself May Render His Situation Worse
118
XI: Number 9,430 Reappears, and Cosette Wins It in the Lottery
119
Book IV: The Gorbeau Hovel
120
I: Master Gorbeau
121
II: A Nest for Owl and a Warbler
122
III: Two Misfortunes Make One Piece of Good Fortune
123
IV: The Remarks of the Principal Tenant
124
V: A Five-Franc Piece Falls on the Ground and Produces a Tumult
125
Book V: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack
126
I: The Zigzags of Strategy
127
II: It Is Lucky That the Pont d’Austerlitz Bears Carriages
128
III: To Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727
129
IV: The Gropings of Flight
130
V: Which Would Be Impossible with Gas Lanterns
131
VI: The Beginning of an Enigma
132
VII: Continuation of the Enigma
133
VIII: The Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious
134
IX: The Man with the Bell
135
X: Which Explains How Javert Got on the Scent
136
Book VI: Le Petit-Picpus
137
I: Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus
138
II: The Obedience of Martin Verga
139
III: Austerities
140
IV: Gayeties
141
V: Distractions
142
VI: The Little Convent
143
VII: Some Silhouettes of This Darkness
144
VIII: Post Corda Lapides
145
IX: A Century Under a Guimpe
146
X: Origin of the Perpetual Adoration
147
XI: End of the Petit-Picpus
148
Book VII: Parenthesis
149
I: The Convent as an Abstract Idea
150
II: The Convent as an Historical Fact
151
III: On What Conditions One Can Respect the Past
152
IV: The Convent from the Point of View of Principles
153
V: Prayer
154
VI: The Absolute Goodness of Prayer
155
VII: Precautions to Be Observed in Blame
156
VIII: Faith, Law
157
Book VIII: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them
158
I: Which Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent
159
II: Fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty
160
III: Mother Innocente
161
IV: In Which Jean Valjean Has Quite the Air of Having Read Austin Castillejo
162
V: It Is Not Necessary to Be Drunk in Order to Be Immortal
163
VI: Between Four Planks
164
VII: In Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don’t Lose the Card
165
VIII: A Successful Interrogatory
166
IX: Cloistered
167
Volume III: Marius
168
Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom
169
I: Parvulus
170
II: Some of His Particular Characteristics
171
III: He Is Agreeable
172
IV: He May Be of Use
173
V: His Frontiers
174
VI: A Bit of History
175
VII: The Gamin Should Have His Place in the Classifications of India
176
VIII: In Which the Reader Will Find a Charming Saying of the Last King
177
IX: The Old Soul of Gaul
178
X: Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo
179
XI: To Scoff, to Reign
180
XII: The Future Latent in the People
181
XIII: Little Gavroche
182
Book II: The Great Bourgeois
183
I: Ninety Years and Thirty-Two Teeth
184
II: Like Master, Like House
185
III: Luc-Esprit
186
IV: A Centenarian Aspirant
187
V: Basque and Nicolette
188
VI: In Which Magnon and Her Two Children Are Seen
189
VII: Rule: Receive No One Except in the Evening
190
VIII: Two Do Not Make a Pair
191
Book III: The Grandfather and the Grandson
192
I: An Ancient Salon
193
II: One of the Red Spectres of That Epoch
194
III: Requiescant
195
IV: End of the Brigand
196
V: The Utility of Going to Mass, in Order to Become a Revolutionist
197
VI: The Consequences of Having Met a Warden
198
VII: Some Petticoat
199
VIII: Marble Against Granite
200
Book IV: The Friends of the A.B.C.
201
I: A Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic
202
II: Blondeau’s Funeral Oration by Bossuet
203
III: Marius’ Astonishments
204
IV: The Back Room of the Café Musain
205
V: Enlargement of Horizon
206
VI: Res Angusta
207
Book V: The Excellence of Misfortune
208
I: Marius Indigent
209
II: Marius Poor
210
III: Marius Grown Up
211
IV: M. Mabeuf
212
V: Poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery
213
VI: The Substitute
214
Book VI: The Conjunction of Two Stars
215
I: The Sobriquet: Mode of Formation of Family Names
216
II: Lux Facta Est
217
III: Effect of the Spring
218
IV: Beginning of a Great Malady
219
V: Divers Claps of Thunder Fall on Ma’am Bougon
220
VI: Taken Prisoner
221
VII: Adventures of the Letter U Delivered Over to Conjectures
222
VIII: The Veterans Themselves Can Be Happy
223
IX: Eclipse
224
Book VII: Patron Minette
225
I: Mines and Miners
226
II: The Lowest Depths
227
III: Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse
228
IV: Composition of the Troupe
229
Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man
230
I: Marius, While Seeking a Girl in a Bonnet, Encounters a Man in a Cap
231
II: Treasure Trove
232
III: Quadrifrons
233
IV: A Rose in Misery
234
V: A Providential Peephole
235
VI: The Wild Man in His Lair
236
VII: Strategy and Tactics
237
VIII: The Ray of Light in the Hovel
238
IX: Jondrette Comes Near Weeping
239
X: Tariff of Licensed Cabs: Two Francs an Hour
240
XI: Offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness
241
XII: The Use Made of M. Leblanc’s Five-Franc Piece
242
XIII: Solus Cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabuntur Orare Pater Noster
243
XIV: In Which a Police Agent Bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer
244
XV: Jondrette Makes His Purchases
245
XVI: In Which Will Be Found the Words to an English Air Which Was in Fashion in 1832
246
XVII: The Use Made of Marius’ Five-Franc Piece
247
XVIII: Marius’ Two Chairs Form a Vis-a-Vis
248
XIX: Occupying One’s Self with Obscure Depths
249
XX: The Trap
250
XXI: One Should Always Begin by Arresting the Victims
251
XXII: The Little One Who Was Crying in Volume Two
252
Volume IV: The Idyl in the Rue Plumet and the Epic in the Rue Saint-Denis
253
Book I: A Few Pages of History
254
I: Well Cut
255
II: Badly Sewed
256
III: Louis Philippe
257
IV: Cracks Beneath the Foundation
258
V: Facts Whence History Springs and Which History Ignores
259
VI: Enjolras and His Lieutenants
260
Book II: Éponine
261
I: The Lark’s Meadow
262
II: Embryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons
263
III: Apparition to Father Mabeuf
264
IV: An Apparition to Marius
265
Book III: The House in the Rue Plumet
266
I: The House with a Secret
267
II: Jean Valjean as a National Guard
268
III: Foliis Ac Frondibus
269
IV: Change of Gate
270
V: The Rose Perceives That It Is an Engine of War
271
VI: The Battle Begun
272
VII: To One Sadness Oppose a Sadness and a Half
273
VIII: The Chain-Gang
274
Book IV: Succor from Below May Turn Out to Be Succor from on High
275
I: A Wound Without, Healing Within
276
II: Mother Plutarque Finds No Difficulty in Explaining a Phenomenon
277
Book V: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning
278
I: Solitude and the Barracks Combined
279
II: Cosette’s Apprehensions
280
III: Enriched with Commentaries by Toussaint
281
IV: A Heart Beneath a Stone
282
V: Cosette After the Letter
283
VI: Old People Are Made to Go Out Opportunely
284
Book VI: Little Gavroche
285
I: The Malicious Playfulness of the Wind
286
II: In Which Little Gavroche Extracts Profit from Napoleon the Great
287
III: The Vicissitudes of Flight
288
Book VII: Slang
289
I: Origin
290
II: Roots
291
III: Slang Which Weeps and Slang Which Laughs
292
IV: The Two Duties: To Watch and to Hope
293
Book VIII: Enchantments and Desolations
294
I: Full Light
295
II: The Bewilderment of Perfect Happiness
296
III: The Beginning of Shadow
297
IV: A Cab Runs in English and Barks in Slang
298
V: Things of the Night
299
VI: Marius Becomes Practical Once More to the Extent of Giving Cosette His Address
300
VII: The Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each Other
301
Book IX: Whither Are They Going?
302
I: Jean Valjean
303
II: Marius
304
III: M. Mabeuf
305
Book X: The 5th of June, 1832
306
I: The Surface of the Question
307
II: The Root of the Matter
308
III: A Burial; An Occasion to Be Born Again
309
IV: The Ebullitions of Former Days
310
V: Originality of Paris
311
Book XI: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane
312
I: Some Explanations with Regard to the Origin of Gavroche’s Poetry
313
II: Gavroche on the March
314
III: Just Indignation of a Hairdresser
315
IV: The Child Is Amazed at the Old Man
316
V: The Old Man
317
VI: Recruits
318
Book XII: Corinthe
319
I: History of Corinthe from Its Foundation
320
II: Preliminary Gayeties
321
III: Night Begins to Descend Upon Grantaire
322
IV: An Attempt to Console the Widow Hucheloup
323
V: Preparations
324
VI: Waiting
325
VII: The Man Recruited in the Rue des Billettes
326
VIII: Many Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain le Cabuc
327
Book XIII: Marius Enters the Shadow
328
I: From the Rue Plumet to the Quartier Saint-Denis
329
II: An Owl’s View of Paris
330
III: The Extreme Edge
331
Book XIV: The Grandeurs of Despair
332
I: The Flag: Act First
333
II: The Flag: Act Second
334
III: Gavroche Would Have Done Better to Accept Enjolras’ Carbine
335
IV: The Barrel of Powder
336
V: End of the Verses of Jean Prouvaire
337
VI: The Agony of Death After the Agony of Life
338
VII: Gavroche as a Profound Calculator of Distances
339
Book XV: The Rue de l’Homme Armé
340
I: A Drinker Is a Babbler
341
II: The Street Urchin an Enemy of Light
342
III: While Cosette and Toussaint Are Asleep
343
IV: Gavroche’s Excess of Zeal
344
Volume V: Jean Valjean
345
Book I: The War Between Four Walls
346
I: The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla
347
II: What Is to Be Done in the Abyss if One Does Not Converse
348
III: Light and Shadow
349
IV: Minus Five, Plus One
350
V: The Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a Barricade
351
VI: Marius Haggard, Javert Laconic
352
VII: The Situation Becomes Aggravated
353
VIII: The Artillerymen Compel People to Take Them Seriously
354
IX: Employment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That Infallible Marksmanship Which Influenced the Condemnation of 1796
355
X: Dawn
356
XI: The Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One
357
XII: Disorder a Partisan of Order
358
XIII: Passing Gleams
359
XIV: Wherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras’ Mistress
360
XV: Gavroche Outside
361
XVI: How from a Brother One Becomes a Father
362
XVII: Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat
363
XVIII: The Vulture Become Prey
364
XIX: Jean Valjean Takes His Revenge
365
XX: The Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the Wrong
366
XXI: The Heroes
367
XXII: Foot to Foot
368
XXIII: Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk
369
XXIV: Prisoner
370
Book II: The Intestine of the Leviathan
371
I: The Land Impoverished by the Sea
372
II: Ancient History of the Sewer
373
III: Bruneseau
374
IV
375
V: Present Progress
376
VI: Future Progress
377
Book III: Mud but the Soul
378
I: The Sewer and Its Surprises
379
II: Explanation
380
III: The “Spun” Man
381
IV: He Also Bears His Cross
382
V: In the Case of Sand as in That of Woman, There Is a Fineness Which Is Treacherous
383
VI: The Fontis
384
VII: One Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is Disembarking
385
VIII: The Torn Coattail
386
IX: Marius Produces on Some One Who Is a Judge of the Matter, the Effect of Being Dead
387
X: Return of the Son Who Was Prodigal of His Life
388
XI: Concussion in the Absolute
389
XII: The Grandfather
390
Book IV: Javert Derailed
391
I
392
Book V: Grandson and Grandfather
393
I: In Which the Tree with the Zinc Plaster Appears Again
394
II: Marius, Emerging from Civil War, Makes Ready for Domestic War
395
III: Marius Attacked
396
IV: Mademoiselle Gillenormand Ends by No Longer Thinking It a Bad Thing That M. Fauchelevent Should Have Entered with Something Under His Arm
397
V: Deposit Your Money in a Forest Rather Than with a Notary
398
VI: The Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own Fashion, to Render Cosette Happy
399
VII: The Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happiness
400
VIII: Two Men Impossible to Find
401
Book VI: The Sleepless Night
402
I: The 16th of February, 1833
403
II: Jean Valjean Still Wears His Arm in a Sling
404
III: The Inseparable
405
IV: The Immortal Liver
406
Book VII: The Last Draught from the Cup
407
I: The Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven
408
II: The Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Contain
409
Book VIII: Fading Away of the Twilight
410
I: The Lower Chamber
411
II: Another Step Backwards
412
III: They Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumet
413
IV: Attraction and Extinction
414
Book IX: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn
415
I: Pity for the Unhappy, but Indulgence for the Happy
416
II: Last Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil
417
III: A Pen Is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent’s Cart
418
IV: A Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whitening
419
V: A Night Behind Which There Is Day
420
VI: The Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces
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I: Which Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent
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