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