Les Miserables
  • VOLUME I
  • BOOK FIRST.--A JUST MAN
  • Preface
  • I. M. Myriel
  • 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
  • VII. Cravatte
  • 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 SECOND.--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 THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817
  • I. The Year 1817
  • II. A Double Quartette
  • III. Four and Four
  • IV. Tholomyes is so Merry that he sings a Spanish Ditty
  • V. At Bombardas
  • VI. A Chapter in which they adore Each Other
  • VII. The Wisdom of Tholomyes
  • VIII. The Death of a Horse
  • IX. A Merry End to Mirth
  • BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER
  • I. One Mother meets Another Mother
  • II. First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures
  • III. The Lark
  • BOOK FIFTH.-- THE DESCENT
  • I. The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets
  • II. Madeleine
  • 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 SIXTH.--JAVERT
  • I. The Beginning of Repose
  • II. How Jean may become Champ
  • BOOK SEVENTH.--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
  • V. Hindrances
  • 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 EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW
  • 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
  • BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO
  • I. What is met with on the Way from Nivelles
  • II. Hougomont
  • III. The Eighteenth of June, 1815
  • IV. A
  • 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 Bulow
  • XII. The Guard
  • XIII. The Catastrophe
  • XIV. The Last Square
  • XV. Cambronne
  • XVI. Quot Libras in Duce?
  • XVII. Is Waterloo to be considered Good?
  • XVIII. A Recrudescence of Divine Right
  • XIX. The Battle-Field at Night
  • BOOK SECOND.--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 THIRD.--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. Thenardier at his Manoeuvres
  • 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 FOURTH.--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 FIFTH.--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 SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS
  • I. Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus
  • II. The Obedience of Martin Verga
  • III. Austerities
  • IV. Gayeties
  • 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 SEVENTH.--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
  • V. Prayer
  • VI. The Absolute Goodness of Prayer
  • VII. Precautions to be observed in Blame
  • VIII. Faith, Law
  • BOOK EIGHTH.--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
  • IX. Cloistered
  • VOLUME III
  • BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM
  • I. Parvulus
  • 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 SECOND.--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 THIRD.--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 FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE ABC
  • I. A Group which barely missed becoming Historic
  • II. Blondeau's Funeral Oration by Bossuet
  • III. Marius' Astonishments
  • IV. The Back Room of the Cafe Musain
  • V. Enlargement of Horizon
  • VI. Res Angusta
  • BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE
  • I. Marius Indigent
  • II. Marius Poor
  • III. Marius Grown Up
  • IV. M. Mabeuf
  • V. Poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery
  • VI. The Substitute
  • BOOK SIXTH.--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
  • IX. Eclipse
  • BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE
  • I. Mines and Miners
  • II. The Lowest Depths
  • III. Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse
  • IV. Composition of the Troupe
  • BOOK EIGHTH.--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 Peep-Hole
  • 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
  • XX. The Trap
  • XXI. One should always begin by arresting the Victims
  • XXII. The Little One who was crying in Volume Two
  • VOLUME IV
  • BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY
  • I. Well Cut
  • 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 SECOND.--EPONINE
  • 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 THIRD.--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 FOURTH.--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 FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING
  • I. Solitude and 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 SIXTH.--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 SEVENTH.--SLANG
  • I. Origin
  • II. Roots
  • III. Slang which weeps and Slang which laughs
  • IV. The Two Duties: To Watch and to Hope
  • BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS
  • I. Full Light
  • 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 NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING?
  • I. Jean Valjean
  • II. Marius
  • III. M. Mabeuf
  • BOOK TENTH.--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 ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE
  • I. Some Explanations with Regard to the Origin of Gavroche's Poetry. The Influence of an Academician on this Poetry
  • II. Gavroche on the March
  • III. Just Indignation of a Hair-dresser
  • IV. The Child is amazed at the Old Man
  • V. The Old Man
  • VI. Recruits
  • BOOK TWELFTH.--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
  • VI. Waiting
  • VII. The Man recruited in the Rue des Billettes
  • VIII. Many Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain Le Cabuc, whose Name may not have been Le Cabuc
  • BOOK THIRTEENTH.--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 FOURTEENTH.--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 FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARME
  • 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
  • BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS
  • I. The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and the Scylla of the Faubourg du Temple
  • 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 Artillery-men 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
  • X. Dawn
  • 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 Becomes 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
  • XXIV. Prisoner
  • BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN
  • I. The Land Impoverished by the Sea
  • II. Ancient History of the Sewer
  • III. Bruneseau
  • IV
  • V. Present Progress
  • VI. Future Progress
  • BOOK THIRD.--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
  • VI. The Fontis
  • VII. One Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is Disembarking
  • VIII. The Torn Coat-Tail
  • 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 FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED
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  • BOOK FIFTH.--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 SIXTH.--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 SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP
  • I. The Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven
  • II. The Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Contain
  • BOOK EIGHTH.--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 NINTH.--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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