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Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
Ex-convict Jean Valjean seeks redemption against the relentless pursuit of Inspector Javert in Hugo's monumental portrait of French society.
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Contents
1Chapter I—m. Myriel5m2Chapter Ii—m. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome9m3Chapter Iii—a Hard Bishopric For A Good Bishop4m4Chapter Iv—works Corresponding To Words13m5Chapter V—monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long5m6Chapter Vi—who Guarded His House For Him10m7Chapter Vii—cravatte6m8Chapter Viii—philosophy After Drinking7m9Chapter Ix—the Brother As Depicted By The Sister7m10Chapter X—the Bishop In The Presence Of An Unknown Light21m11Chapter Xi—a Restriction8m12Chapter Xii—the Solitude Of Monseigneur Welcome5m13Chapter Xiii—what He Believed7m14Chapter Xiv—what He Thought5m15Chapter I—the Evening Of A Day Of Walking19m16Chapter Ii—prudence Counselled To Wisdom.7m17Chapter Iii—the Heroism Of Passive Obedience.9m18Chapter Iv—details Concerning The Cheese-dairies Of Pontarlier.6m19Chapter V—tranquillity3m20Chapter Vi—jean Valjean10m21Chapter Vii—the Interior Of Despair13m22Chapter Viii—billows And Shadows4m23Chapter Ix—new Troubles2m24Chapter X—the Man Aroused5m25Chapter Xi—what He Does7m26Chapter Xii—the Bishop Works5m27Chapter Xiii—little Gervais15m28Chapter I—the Year 181710m29Chapter Ii—a Double Quartette7m30Chapter Iii—four And Four7m31Chapter Iv—tholomyès Is So Merry That He Sings A Spanish Ditty4m32Chapter V—at Bombarda’s5m33Chapter Vi—a Chapter In Which They Adore Each Other3m34Chapter Vii—the Wisdom Of Tholomyès10m35Chapter Viii—the Death Of A Horse4m36Chapter Ix—a Merry End To Mirth5m37Chapter I—one Mother Meets Another Mother15m38Chapter Ii—first Sketch Of Two Unprepossessing Figures4m39Chapter Iii—the Lark5m40Chapter I—the History Of A Progress In Black Glass Trinkets3m41Chapter Ii—madeleine7m42Chapter Iii—sums Deposited With Laffitte6m43Chapter Iv—m. Madeleine In Mourning4m44Chapter V—vague Flashes On The Horizon10m45Chapter Vi—father Fauchelevent5m46Chapter Vii—fauchelevent Becomes A Gardener In Paris2m47Chapter Viii—madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs On Morality5m48Chapter Ix—madame Victurnien’s Success5m49Chapter X—result Of The Success9m50Chapter Xi—christus Nos Liberavit2m51Chapter Xii—m. Bamatabois’s Inactivity5m52Chapter Xiii—the Solution Of Some Questions Connected With The17m53Chapter I—the Beginning Of Repose6m54Chapter Ii—how Jean May Become Champ15m55Chapter I—sister Simplice5m56Chapter Ii—the Perspicacity Of Master Scaufflaire8m57Chapter Iii—a Tempest In A Skull34m58Chapter Iv—forms Assumed By Suffering During Sleep6m59Chapter V—hindrances18m60Chapter Vi—sister Simplice Put To The Proof11m61Chapter Vii—the Traveller On His Arrival Takes Precautions For8m62Chapter Viii—an Entrance By Favor6m63Chapter Ix—a Place Where Convictions Are In Process Of Formation12m64Chapter X—the System Of Denials13m65Chapter Xi—champmathieu More And More Astonished8m66Chapter I—in What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair4m67Chapter Ii—fantine Happy7m68Chapter Iii—javert Satisfied6m69Chapter Iv—authority Reasserts Its Rights7m70Chapter V—a Suitable Tomb10m71Chapter I—what Is Met With On The Way From Nivelles3m72Chapter Ii—hougomont12m73Chapter Iii—the Eighteenth Of June, 18155m74Chapter Iv—a4m75Chapter V—the Quid Obscurum Of Battles5m76Chapter Vi—four O’clock In The Afternoon5m77Chapter Vii—napoleon In A Good Humor10m78Chapter Viii—the Emperor Puts A Question To The Guide Lacoste4m79Chapter Ix—the Unexpected6m80Chapter X—the Plateau Of Mont-saint-jean8m81Chapter Xi—a Bad Guide To Napoleon; A Good Guide To Bülow3m82Chapter Xii—the Guard3m83Chapter Xiii—the Catastrophe4m84Chapter Xiv—the Last Square2m85Chapter Xv—cambronne4m86Chapter Xvi—quot Libras In Duce?8m87Chapter Xvii—is Waterloo To Be Considered Good?3m88Chapter Xviii—a Recrudescence Of Divine Right5m89Chapter Xix—the Battle-field At Night11m90Chapter I—number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,4305m91Chapter Ii—in Which The Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, Which Are Of The8m92Chapter Iii—the Ankle-chain Must Have Undergone A Certain Preparatory14m93Chapter I—the Water Question At Montfermeil6m94Chapter Ii—two Complete Portraits9m95Chapter Iii—men Must Have Wine, And Horses Must Have Water4m96Chapter Iv—entrance On The Scene Of A Doll3m97Chapter V—the Little One All Alone10m98Chapter Vi—which Possibly Proves Boulatruelle’s Intelligence9m99Chapter Vii—cosette Side By Side With The Stranger In The Dark4m100Chapter Viii—the Unpleasantness Of Receiving Into One’s House A Poor28m101Chapter Ix— Thénardier And His Manœuvres13m102Chapter X—he Who Seeks To Better Himself May Render His Situation Worse8m103Chapter Xi—number 9,430 Reappears, And Cosette Wins It In The Lottery3m104Chapter I—master Gorbeau11m105Chapter Ii—a Nest For Owl And A Warbler3m106Chapter Iii—two Misfortunes Make One Piece Of Good Fortune7m107Chapter Iv—the Remarks Of The Principal Tenant4m108Chapter V—a Five-franc Piece Falls On The Ground And Produces A Tumult6m109Chapter I—the Zigzags Of Strategy7m110Chapter Ii—it Is Lucky That The Pont D’austerlitz Bears Carriages3m111Chapter Iii—to Wit, The Plan Of Paris In 17276m112Chapter Iv—the Gropings Of Flight5m113Chapter V—which Would Be Impossible With Gas Lanterns6m114Chapter Vi—the Beginning Of An Enigma4m115Chapter Vii—continuation Of The Enigma4m116Chapter Viii—the Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious3m117Chapter Ix—the Man With The Bell6m118Chapter X—which Explains How Javert Got On The Scent15m119Chapter I—number 62 Rue Petit-picpus7m120Chapter Ii—the Obedience Of Martin Verga12m121Chapter Iii—austerities3m122Chapter Iv—gayeties6m123Chapter V—distractions9m124Chapter Vi—the Little Convent4m125Chapter Vii—some Silhouettes Of This Darkness4m126Chapter Viii—post Corda Lapides3m127Chapter Ix—a Century Under A Guimpe4m128Chapter X—origin Of The Perpetual Adoration3m129Chapter Xi—end Of The Petit-picpus3m130Chapter I—the Convent As An Abstract Idea1m131Chapter Ii—the Convent As An Historical Fact5m132Chapter Iii—on What Conditions One Can Respect The Past4m133Chapter Iv—the Convent From The Point Of View Of Principles3m134Chapter V—prayer2m135Chapter Vi—the Absolute Goodness Of Prayer4m136Chapter Vii—precautions To Be Observed In Blame2m137Chapter Viii—faith, Law4m138Chapter I—which Treats Of The Manner Of Entering A Convent13m139Chapter Ii—fauchelevent In The Presence Of A Difficulty4m140Chapter Iii—mother Innocente15m141Chapter Iv—in Which Jean Valjean Has Quite The Air Of Having Read9m142Chapter V—it Is Not Necessary To Be Drunk In Order To Be Immortal9m143Chapter Vi—between Four Planks3m144Chapter Vii—in Which Will Be Found The Origin Of The Saying: Don’t Lose12m145Chapter Viii—a Successful Interrogatory5m146Chapter Ix—cloistered12m147Chapter I—parvulus2m148Chapter Ii—some Of His Particular Characteristics3m149Chapter Iii—he Is Agreeable2m150Chapter Iv—he May Be Of Use2m151Chapter V—his Frontiers4m152Chapter Vi—a Bit Of History4m153Chapter Vii—the Gamin Should Have His Place In The Classifications Of4m154Chapter Viii—in Which The Reader Will Find A Charming Saying Of The3m155Chapter Ix—the Old Soul Of Gaul2m156Chapter X—ecce Paris, Ecce Homo5m157Chapter Xi—to Scoff, To Reign4m158Chapter Xii—the Future Latent In The People2m159Chapter Xiii—little Gavroche4m160Chapter I—ninety Years And Thirty-two Teeth4m161Chapter Ii—like Master, Like House2m162Chapter Iii—luc-esprit2m163Chapter Iv—a Centenarian Aspirant2m164Chapter V—basque And Nicolette2m165Chapter Vi—in Which Magnon And Her Two Children Are Seen4m166Chapter Vii—rule: Receive No One Except In The Evening1m167Chapter Viii—two Do Not Make A Pair4m168Chapter I—an Ancient Salon6m169Chapter Ii—one Of The Red Spectres Of That Epoch12m170Chapter Iii—requiescant13m171Chapter Iv—end Of The Brigand6m172Chapter V—the Utility Of Going To Mass, In Order To Become A3m173Chapter Vi—the Consequences Of Having Met A Warden11m174Chapter Vii—some Petticoat8m175Chapter Viii—marble Against Granite9m176Chapter I—a Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic23m177Chapter Ii—blondeau’s Funeral Oration By Bossuet6m178Chapter Iii—marius’ Astonishments4m179Chapter Iv—the Back Room Of The Café Musain13m180Chapter V—enlargement Of Horizon7m181Chapter Vi—res Angusta4m182Chapter I—marius Indigent4m183Chapter Ii—marius Poor6m184Chapter Iii—marius Grown Up9m185Chapter Iv—m. Mabeuf8m186Chapter V—poverty A Good Neighbor For Misery4m187Chapter Vi—the Substitute8m188Chapter I—the Sobriquet: Mode Of Formation Of Family Names6m189Chapter Ii—lux Facta Est4m190Chapter Iii—effect Of The Spring2m191Chapter Iv—beginning Of A Great Malady5m192Chapter V—divers Claps Of Thunder Fall On Ma’am Bougon2m193Chapter Vi—taken Prisoner5m194Chapter Vii—adventures Of The Letter U Delivered Over To Conjectures3m195Chapter Viii—the Veterans Themselves Can Be Happy3m196Chapter Ix—eclipse4m197Chapter I—mines And Miners4m198Chapter Ii—the Lowest Depths3m199Chapter Iii—babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, And Montparnasse5m200Chapter Iv—composition Of The Troupe5m201Chapter I—marius, While Seeking A Girl In A Bonnet, Encounters A Man In3m202Chapter Ii—treasure Trove3m203Chapter Iii—quadrifrons7m204Chapter Iv—a Rose In Misery12m205Chapter V—a Providential Peep-hole4m206Chapter Vi—the Wild Man In His Lair7m207Chapter Vii—strategy And Tactics6m208Chapter Viii—the Ray Of Light In The Hovel4m209Chapter Ix—jondrette Comes Near Weeping6m210Chapter X—tariff Of Licensed Cabs: Two Francs An Hour6m211Chapter Xi—offers Of Service From Misery To Wretchedness5m212Chapter Xii—the Use Made Of M. Leblanc’s Five-franc Piece8m213Chapter Xiii—solus Cum Solo, In Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabuntur Orare5m214Chapter Xiv—in Which A Police Agent Bestows Two Fistfuls On A Lawyer6m215Chapter Xv—jondrette Makes His Purchases4m216Chapter Xvi—in Which Will Be Found The Words To An English Air Which6m217Chapter Xvii—the Use Made Of Marius’ Five-franc Piece7m218Chapter Xviii—marius’ Two Chairs Form A Vis-a-vis3m219Chapter Xix—occupying One’s Self With Obscure Depths8m220Chapter Xx—the Trap41m221Chapter Xxi—one Should Always Begin By Arresting The Victims6m222Chapter Xxii—the Little One Who Was Crying In Volume Two3m223Chapter I—well Cut10m224Chapter Ii—badly Sewed6m225Chapter Iii—louis Philippe12m226Chapter Iv—cracks Beneath The Foundation12m227Chapter V—facts Whence History Springs And Which History Ignores18m228Chapter Vi—enjolras And His Lieutenants7m229Chapter I—the Lark’s Meadow10m230Chapter Ii—embryonic Formation Of Crimes In The Incubation Of Prisons8m231Chapter Iii—apparition To Father Mabeuf7m232Chapter Iv—an Apparition To Marius8m233Chapter I—the House With A Secret8m234Chapter Ii—jean Valjean As A National Guard5m235Chapter Iii—foliis Ac Frondibus7m236Chapter Iv—change Of Gate9m237Chapter V—the Rose Perceives That It Is An Engine Of War8m238Chapter Vi—the Battle Begun6m239Chapter Vii—to One Sadness Oppose A Sadness And A Half9m240Chapter Viii—the Chain-gang17m241Chapter I—a Wound Without, Healing Within4m242Chapter Ii—mother Plutarque Finds No Difficulty In Explaining A14m243Chapter I—solitude And The Barracks Combined3m244Chapter Ii—cosette’s Apprehensions6m245Chapter Iii—enriched With Commentaries By Toussaint5m246Chapter Iv—a Heart Beneath A Stone6m247Chapter V—cosette After The Letter4m248Chapter Vi—old People Are Made To Go Out Opportunely6m249Chapter I—the Malicious Playfulness Of The Wind6m250Chapter Ii—in Which Little Gavroche Extracts Profit From Napoleon The35m251Chapter Iii—the Vicissitudes Of Flight22m252Chapter I—origin12m253Chapter Ii—roots15m254Chapter Iii—slang Which Weeps And Slang Which Laughs8m255Chapter Iv—the Two Duties: To Watch And To Hope7m256Chapter I—full Light10m257Chapter Ii—the Bewilderment Of Perfect Happiness4m258Chapter Iii—the Beginning Of Shadow6m259Chapter Iv—a Cab Runs In English And Barks In Slang11m260Chapter V—things Of The Night2m261Chapter Vi—marius Becomes Practical Once More To The Extent Of Giving10m262Chapter Vii—the Old Heart And The Young Heart In The Presence Of Each21m263Chapter I—jean Valjean3m264Chapter Ii—marius5m265Chapter Iii—m. Mabeuf7m266Chapter I—the Surface Of The Question6m267Chapter Ii—the Root Of The Matter11m268Chapter Iii—a Burial; An Occasion To Be Born Again10m269Chapter Iv—the Ebullitions Of Former Days9m270Chapter V—originality Of Paris5m271Chapter I—some Explanations With Regard To The Origin Of Gavroche’s4m272Chapter Ii—gavroche On The March6m273Chapter Iii—just Indignation Of A Hair-dresser3m274Chapter Iv—the Child Is Amazed At The Old Man3m275Chapter V—the Old Man3m276Chapter Vi—recruits3m277Chapter I—history Of Corinthe From Its Foundation9m278Chapter Ii—preliminary Gayeties16m279Chapter Iii—night Begins To Descend Upon Grantaire6m280Chapter Iv—an Attempt To Console The Widow Hucheloup6m281Chapter V—preparations4m282Chapter Vi—waiting4m283Chapter Vii—the Man Recruited In The Rue Des Billettes6m284Chapter Viii—many Interrogation Points With Regard To A Certain Le8m285Chapter I—from The Rue Plumet To The Quartier Saint-denis5m286Chapter Ii—an Owl’s View Of Paris5m287Chapter Iii—the Extreme Edge11m288Chapter I—the Flag: Act First5m289Chapter Ii—the Flag: Act Second5m290Chapter Iii—gavroche Would Have Done Better To Accept Enjolras’ Carbine2m291Chapter Iv—the Barrel Of Powder5m292Chapter V—end Of The Verses Of Jean Prouvaire3m293Chapter Vi—the Agony Of Death After The Agony Of Life7m294Chapter Vii—gavroche As A Profound Calculator Of Distances6m295Chapter I—a Drinker Is A Babbler15m296Chapter Ii—the Street Urchin An Enemy Of Light7m297Chapter Iii—while Cosette And Toussaint Are Asleep3m298Chapter Iv—gavroche’s Excess Of Zeal7m299Chapter I—the Charybdis Of The Faubourg Saint Antoine And The Scylla Of13m300Chapter Ii—what Is To Be Done In The Abyss If One Does Not Converse7m301Chapter Iii—light And Shadow3m302Chapter Iv—minus Five, Plus One11m303Chapter V—the Horizon Which One Beholds From The Summit Of A Barricade7m304Chapter Vi—marius Haggard, Javert Laconic4m305Chapter Vii—the Situation Becomes Aggravated7m306Chapter Viii—the Artillery-men Compel People To Take Them Seriously5m307Chapter Ix—employment Of The Old Talents Of A Poacher And That3m308Chapter X—dawn7m309Chapter Xi—the Shot Which Misses Nothing And Kills No One2m310Chapter Xii—disorder A Partisan Of Order6m311Chapter Xiii—passing Gleams4m312Chapter Xiv—wherein Will Appear The Name Of Enjolras’ Mistress4m313Chapter Xv—gavroche Outside5m314Chapter Xvi—how From A Brother One Becomes A Father15m315Chapter Xvii—mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat3m316Chapter Xviii—the Vulture Become Prey6m317Chapter Xix—jean Valjean Takes His Revenge4m318Chapter Xx—the Dead Are In The Right And The Living Are Not In The16m319Chapter Xxi—the Heroes8m320Chapter Xxii—foot To Foot6m321Chapter Xxiii—orestes Fasting And Pylades Drunk6m322Chapter Xxiv—prisoner5m323Chapter I—the Land Impoverished By The Sea7m324Chapter Ii—ancient History Of The Sewer6m325Chapter Iii—bruneseau5m326Chapter Iv6m327Chapter V—present Progress3m328Chapter Vi—future Progress8m329Chapter I—the Sewer And Its Surprises11m330Chapter Ii—explanation4m331Chapter Iii—the “Spun” Man8m332Chapter Iv—he Also Bears His Cross7m333Chapter V—in The Case Of Sand As In That Of Woman, There Is A Fineness9m334Chapter Vi—the Fontis4m335Chapter Vii—one Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is4m336Chapter Viii—the Torn Coat-tail8m337Chapter Ix—marius Produces On Some One Who Is A Judge Of The Matter,7m338Chapter X—return Of The Son Who Was Prodigal Of His Life3m339Chapter Xi—concussion In The Absolute3m340Chapter Xii—the Grandfather11m341Chapter I21m342Chapter I—in Which The Tree With The Zinc Plaster Appears Again6m343Chapter Ii—marius, Emerging From Civil War, Makes Ready For Domestic8m344Chapter Iii—marius Attacked5m345Chapter Iv—mademoiselle Gillenormand Ends By No Longer Thinking It A9m346Chapter V—deposit Your Money In A Forest Rather Than With A Notary2m347Chapter Vi—the Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own14m348Chapter Vii—the Effects Of Dreams Mingled With Happiness4m349Chapter Viii—two Men Impossible To Find7m350Chapter I—the 16th Of February, 183314m351Chapter Ii—jean Valjean Still Wears His Arm In A Sling16m352Chapter Iii—the Inseparable5m353Chapter Iv—the Immortal Liver 688m354Chapter I—the Seventh Circle And The Eighth Heaven30m355Chapter Ii—the Obscurities Which A Revelation Can Contain15m356Chapter I—the Lower Chamber8m357Chapter Ii—another Step Backwards5m358Chapter Iii—they Recall The Garden Of The Rue Plumet8m359Chapter Iv—attraction And Extinction4m360Chapter I—pity For The Unhappy, But Indulgence For The Happy4m361Chapter Ii—last Flickerings Of A Lamp Without Oil3m362Chapter Iii—a Pen Is Heavy To The Man Who Lifted The Fauchelevent’s5m363Chapter Iv—a Bottle Of Ink Which Only Succeeded In Whitening31m364Chapter V—a Night Behind Which There Is Day17m365Chapter Vi—the Grass Covers And The Rain Effaces16m