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Les Miserables — BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF

Victor Hugo
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  1. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL5 min
  2. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME8 min
  3. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP4 min
  4. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS14 min
  5. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG5 min
  6. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM10 min
  7. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE6 min
  8. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING7 min
  9. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER7 min
  10. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT22 min
  11. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION8 min
  12. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME6 min
  13. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED8 min
  14. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT5 min
  15. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING20 min
  16. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.7 min
  17. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.10 min
  18. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER.7 min
  19. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY3 min
  20. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN10 min
  21. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR14 min
  22. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS4 min
  23. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES3 min
  24. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED6 min
  25. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES7 min
  26. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS6 min
  27. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS16 min
  28. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 181711 min
  29. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE8 min
  30. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR7 min
  31. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY5 min
  32. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA’S5 min
  33. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER3 min
  34. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS10 min
  35. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE4 min
  36. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH5 min
  37. BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER16 min
  38. BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES4 min
  39. BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER III—THE LARK5 min
  40. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS3 min
  41. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER II—MADELEINE7 min
  42. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE6 min
  43. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING4 min
  44. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON10 min
  45. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT5 min
  46. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS2 min
  47. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY5 min
  48. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN’S SUCCESS5 min
  49. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS9 min
  50. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT2 min
  51. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS’S INACTIVITY5 min
  52. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE18 min
  53. BOOK SIXTH—JAVERT — CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE6 min
  54. BOOK SIXTH—JAVERT — CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP15 min
  55. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE6 min
  56. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE8 min
  57. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL36 min
  58. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP6 min
  59. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES19 min
  60. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF12 min
  61. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE8 min
  62. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR6 min
  63. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION13 min
  64. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS13 min
  65. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED8 min
  66. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR5 min
  67. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY7 min
  68. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED7 min
  69. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS7 min
  70. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB10 min
  71. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES3 min
  72. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT13 min
  73. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 18155 min
  74. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER IV—A4 min
  75. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES6 min
  76. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VI—FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON5 min
  77. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR10 min
  78. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE5 min
  79. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED7 min
  80. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN9 min
  81. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BÜLOW3 min
  82. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XII—THE GUARD3 min
  83. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE5 min
  84. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE2 min
  85. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE4 min
  86. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?9 min
  87. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?3 min
  88. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT5 min
  89. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT11 min
  90. BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,4305 min
  91. BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE DEVIL’S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY9 min
  92. BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER15 min
  93. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL7 min
  94. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS10 min
  95. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER4 min
  96. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL3 min
  97. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE10 min
  98. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE’S INTELLIGENCE9 min
  99. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK4 min
  100. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE’S HOUSE A POOR MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN29 min
  101. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER IX— THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANŒUVRES13 min
  102. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE9 min
  103. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY3 min
  104. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU11 min
  105. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER3 min
  106. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE7 min
  107. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT4 min
  108. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT6 min
  109. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY7 min
  110. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D’AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES3 min
  111. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 17276 min
  112. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT5 min
  113. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS7 min
  114. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA5 min
  115. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA4 min
  116. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS4 min
  117. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL6 min
  118. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT16 min
  119. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS7 min
  120. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA12 min
  121. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES3 min
  122. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES6 min
  123. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS10 min
  124. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT5 min
  125. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS4 min
  126. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES3 min
  127. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE4 min
  128. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER X—ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION3 min
  129. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS3 min
  130. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA1 min
  131. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT5 min
  132. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST4 min
  133. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES3 min
  134. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER V—PRAYER2 min
  135. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER4 min
  136. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME2 min
  137. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW4 min
  138. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT14 min
  139. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY4 min
  140. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE15 min
  141. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO10 min
  142. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL10 min
  143. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS3 min
  144. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON’T LOSE THE CARD12 min
  145. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY5 min
  146. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED13 min
  147. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER I—PARVULUS2 min
  148. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER II—SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS3 min
  149. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE2 min
  150. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE2 min
  151. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS4 min
  152. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY4 min
  153. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA4 min
  154. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING3 min
  155. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL2 min
  156. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO5 min
  157. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN4 min
  158. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE2 min
  159. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE5 min
  160. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH4 min
  161. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER II—LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE2 min
  162. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT2 min
  163. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER IV—A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT2 min
  164. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER V—BASQUE AND NICOLETTE3 min
  165. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN4 min
  166. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING1 min
  167. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR4 min
  168. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON6 min
  169. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH12 min
  170. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT14 min
  171. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND6 min
  172. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST3 min
  173. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN12 min
  174. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT8 min
  175. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE9 min
  176. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC24 min
  177. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU’S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET6 min
  178. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER III—MARIUS’ ASTONISHMENTS4 min
  179. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN13 min
  180. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON7 min
  181. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA4 min
  182. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT4 min
  183. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR6 min
  184. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP9 min
  185. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF8 min
  186. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY4 min
  187. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE8 min
  188. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES6 min
  189. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST4 min
  190. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING2 min
  191. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY6 min
  192. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER V—DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA’AM BOUGON2 min
  193. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER5 min
  194. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES4 min
  195. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VIII—THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY3 min
  196. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE4 min
  197. BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS4 min
  198. BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS3 min
  199. BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE5 min
  200. BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE5 min
  201. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP4 min
  202. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE3 min
  203. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS7 min
  204. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY12 min
  205. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE5 min
  206. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR8 min
  207. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS6 min
  208. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL4 min
  209. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER IX—JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING7 min
  210. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR6 min
  211. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS5 min
  212. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC’S FIVE-FRANC PIECE8 min
  213. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER5 min
  214. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER6 min
  215. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES4 min
  216. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVI—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH WAS IN FASHION IN 18326 min
  217. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS’ FIVE-FRANC PIECE7 min
  218. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS’ TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS3 min
  219. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIX—OCCUPYING ONE’S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS8 min
  220. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP43 min
  221. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS6 min
  222. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XXII—THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO3 min
  223. VOLUME IV SAINT-DENIS — BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER I—WELL CUT10 min
  224. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED6 min
  225. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE13 min
  226. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION12 min
  227. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES18 min
  228. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS7 min
  229. BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER I—THE LARK’S MEADOW11 min
  230. BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS8 min
  231. BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF7 min
  232. BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS8 min
  233. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET9 min
  234. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD5 min
  235. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS7 min
  236. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE9 min
  237. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR8 min
  238. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN6 min
  239. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF10 min
  240. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG18 min
  241. BOOK FOURTH—SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH — CHAPTER I—A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN4 min
  242. BOOK FOURTH—SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH — CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON14 min
  243. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER I—SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED3 min
  244. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER II—COSETTE’S APPREHENSIONS6 min
  245. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER III—ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT5 min
  246. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE6 min
  247. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER5 min
  248. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY6 min
  249. BOOK SIXTH—LITTLE GAVROCHE — CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND6 min
  250. BOOK SIXTH—LITTLE GAVROCHE — CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT36 min
  251. BOOK SIXTH—LITTLE GAVROCHE — CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT23 min
  252. BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER I—ORIGIN13 min
  253. BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER II—ROOTS15 min
  254. BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS8 min
  255. BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE8 min
  256. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT10 min
  257. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER II—THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS4 min
  258. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW6 min
  259. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG12 min
  260. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER V—THINGS OF THE NIGHT2 min
  261. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER VI—MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING COSETTE HIS ADDRESS10 min
  262. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER21 min
  263. BOOK NINTH—WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? — CHAPTER I—JEAN VALJEAN3 min
  264. BOOK NINTH—WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? — CHAPTER II—MARIUS5 min
  265. BOOK NINTH—WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? — CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF7 min
  266. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION6 min
  267. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER11 min
  268. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN10 min
  269. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS9 min
  270. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS5 min
  271. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE’S POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY4 min
  272. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH6 min
  273. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER III—JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER3 min
  274. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER IV—THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN3 min
  275. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER V—THE OLD MAN3 min
  276. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER VI—RECRUITS3 min
  277. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION10 min
  278. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES17 min
  279. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE6 min
  280. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP7 min
  281. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER V—PREPARATIONS4 min
  282. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER VI—WAITING4 min
  283. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES6 min
  284. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC8 min
  285. BOOK THIRTEENTH—MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW — CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS5 min
  286. BOOK THIRTEENTH—MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW — CHAPTER II—AN OWL’S VIEW OF PARIS5 min
  287. BOOK THIRTEENTH—MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW — CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE11 min
  288. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST5 min
  289. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER II—THE FLAG: ACT SECOND5 min
  290. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER III—GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS’ CARBINE2 min
  291. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER IV—THE BARREL OF POWDER5 min
  292. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER V—END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE3 min
  293. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER VI—THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE7 min
  294. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES7 min
  295. BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER16 min
  296. BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER II—THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT7 min
  297. BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER III—WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP3 min
  298. BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE’S EXCESS OF ZEAL8 min
  299. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE13 min
  300. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE7 min
  301. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW3 min
  302. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE11 min
  303. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE8 min
  304. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER VI—MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC4 min
  305. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED7 min
  306. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY5 min
  307. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 17963 min
  308. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER X—DAWN7 min
  309. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE2 min
  310. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER6 min
  311. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XIII—PASSING GLEAMS4 min
  312. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS’ MISTRESS4 min
  313. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE5 min
  314. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER15 min
  315. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XVII—MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT3 min
  316. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY6 min
  317. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE4 min
  318. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG16 min
  319. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES8 min
  320. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT7 min
  321. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK6 min
  322. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER5 min
  323. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA7 min
  324. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER6 min
  325. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU6 min
  326. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER IV7 min
  327. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS3 min
  328. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS9 min
  329. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES12 min
  330. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION4 min
  331. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER III—THE “SPUN” MAN8 min
  332. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS7 min
  333. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS WHICH IS TREACHEROUS9 min
  334. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS4 min
  335. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING5 min
  336. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL9 min
  337. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD8 min
  338. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER X—RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE3 min
  339. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER XI—CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE3 min
  340. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER11 min
  341. BOOK FOURTH—JAVERT DERAILED — CHAPTER I22 min
  342. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN6 min
  343. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR9 min
  344. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER III—MARIUS ATTACKED6 min
  345. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER IV—MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER HIS ARM9 min
  346. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER V—DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY3 min
  347. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY15 min
  348. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER VII—THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS5 min
  349. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND8 min
  350. BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 183315 min
  351. BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING17 min
  352. BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE5 min
  353. BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 688 min
  354. BOOK SEVENTH—THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP — CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN32 min
  355. BOOK SEVENTH—THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP — CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN15 min
  356. BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER8 min
  357. BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS5 min
  358. BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER III—THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET8 min
  359. BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION4 min
  360. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY4 min
  361. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER II—LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL3 min
  362. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT’S CART6 min
  363. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING32 min
  364. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY18 min
  365. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES2 min
  366. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — LETTER TO M. DAELLI6 min
  367. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — FOOTNOTES:9 min

Les Miserables · Victor Hugo

BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF

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On the day when M. Mabeuf said to Marius: “Certainly I approve of political opinions,” he expressed the real state of his mind. All political opinions were matters of indifference to him, and he approved them all, without distinction, provided they left him in peace, as the Greeks called the Furies “the beautiful, the good, the charming,” the Eumenides. M. Mabeuf’s political opinion consisted in a passionate love for plants, and, above all, for books. Like all the rest of the world, he possessed the termination in ist, without which no one could exist at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a bouquinist, a collector of old books. He did not understand how men could busy themselves with hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc., when there were in the world all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, and heaps of folios, and even of 32mos, which they might turn over. He took good care not to become useless; having books did not prevent his reading, being a botanist did not prevent his being a gardener. When he made Pontmercy’s acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the colonel and himself—that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for fruits. M. Mabeuf had succeeded in producing seedling pears as savory as the pears of St. Germain; it is from one of his combinations, apparently, that the October Mirabelle, now celebrated and no less perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass rather from gentleness than from piety, and because, as he loved the faces of men, but hated their noise, he found them assembled and silent only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving any woman as much as a tulip bulb, nor any man as much as an Elzevir. He had long passed sixty, when, one day, some one asked him: “Have you never been married?” “I have forgotten,” said he. When it sometimes happened to him—and to whom does it not happen?—to say: “Oh! if I were only rich!” it was not when ogling a pretty girl, as was the case with Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, his aged fingers, stiffened with rheumatism, lay crooked up in the folds of his sheets. He had composed and published a Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable measure of esteem and which sold well. People rang his bell, in the Rue Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of his fortune. Although poor, he had had the talent to form for himself, by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often returned with two. The sole decoration of the four rooms on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed herbariums, and engravings of the old masters. The sight of a sword or a gun chilled his blood. He had never approached a cannon in his life, even at the Invalides. He had a passable stomach, a brother who was a curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a trembling in every limb, a Picard accent, an infantile laugh, the air of an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques, named Royal. His dream was to naturalize indigo in France.

His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri’s miserere in the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity of passion which existed in her. None of her dreams had ever proceeded as far as man. She had never been able to get further than her cat. Like him, she had a moustache. Her glory consisted in her caps, which were always white. She passed her time, on Sundays, after mass, in counting over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to read. M. Mabeuf had nicknamed her Mother Plutarque.

M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and gentle, warmed his age without startling his timidity. Youth combined with gentleness produces on old people the effect of the sun without wind. When Marius was saturated with military glory, with gunpowder, with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles in which his father had given and received such tremendous blows of the sword, he went to see M. Mabeuf, and M. Mabeuf talked to him of his hero from the point of view of flowers.

His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when the night is drawing on, the whole horizon grew dark for M. Mabeuf. A notary’s failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which was all that he possessed in his brother’s right and his own. The Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of embarrassment, the first thing which does not sell is a Flora. The Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz stopped short. Weeks passed by without a single purchaser. Sometimes M. Mabeuf started at the sound of the bell. “Monsieur,” said Mother Plutarque sadly, “it is the water-carrier.” In short, one day, M. Mabeuf quitted the Rue Mésières, abdicated the functions of warden, gave up Saint-Sulpice, sold not a part of his books, but of his prints,—that to which he was the least attached,—and installed himself in a little house on the Rue Montparnasse, where, however, he remained but one quarter for two reasons: in the first place, the ground floor and the garden cost three hundred francs, and he dared not spend more than two hundred francs on his rent; in the second, being near Faton’s shooting-gallery, he could hear the pistol-shots; which was intolerable to him.

He carried off his Flora, his copper-plates, his herbariums, his portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, in a sort of thatched cottage of the village of Austerlitz, where, for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a hedge, and containing a well. He took advantage of this removal to sell off nearly all his furniture. On the day of his entrance into his new quarters, he was very gay, and drove the nails on which his engravings and herbariums were to hang, with his own hands, dug in his garden the rest of the day, and at night, perceiving that Mother Plutarque had a melancholy air, and was very thoughtful, he tapped her on the shoulder and said to her with a smile: “We have the indigo!”

Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him.

However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some bit of wisdom, or folly, or, as it often happens, in both at once, are but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a passivity, which, if it were the outcome of reasoning, would resemble philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, and yet is hardly conscious of it one’s self. It always ends, it is true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look on at the game with indifference.

It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. Mabeuf remained rather puerilely, but profoundly serene. His habits of mind had the regular swing of a pendulum. Once mounted on an illusion, he went for a very long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost.

M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother Plutarque was reading a romance in one corner of the room. She was reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is to assure one’s self of what one is reading. There are people who read very loud, and who have the appearance of giving themselves their word of honor as to what they are perusing.

It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the romance which she had in hand. M. Mabeuf heard her without listening to her.

In the course of her reading, Mother Plutarque came to this phrase. It was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:—

“—The beauty pouted, and the dragoon—”

Here she interrupted herself to wipe her glasses.

“Bouddha and the Dragon,” struck in M. Mabeuf in a low voice. “Yes, it is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars had already been consumed by this monster, which, besides, had the claws of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. There is no more beautiful legend in existence.”

And M. Mabeuf fell into a delicious reverie.

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Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

  1. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL5 min
  2. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME8 min
  3. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP4 min
  4. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS14 min
  5. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG5 min
  6. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM10 min
  7. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE6 min
  8. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING7 min
  9. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER7 min
  10. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT22 min
  11. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION8 min
  12. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME6 min
  13. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED8 min
  14. BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT5 min
  15. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING20 min
  16. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.7 min
  17. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.10 min
  18. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER.7 min
  19. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY3 min
  20. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN10 min
  21. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR14 min
  22. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS4 min
  23. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES3 min
  24. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED6 min
  25. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES7 min
  26. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS6 min
  27. BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS16 min
  28. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 181711 min
  29. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE8 min
  30. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR7 min
  31. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY5 min
  32. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA’S5 min
  33. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER3 min
  34. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS10 min
  35. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE4 min
  36. BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH5 min
  37. BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER16 min
  38. BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES4 min
  39. BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER III—THE LARK5 min
  40. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS3 min
  41. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER II—MADELEINE7 min
  42. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE6 min
  43. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING4 min
  44. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON10 min
  45. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT5 min
  46. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS2 min
  47. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY5 min
  48. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN’S SUCCESS5 min
  49. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS9 min
  50. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT2 min
  51. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS’S INACTIVITY5 min
  52. BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE18 min
  53. BOOK SIXTH—JAVERT — CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE6 min
  54. BOOK SIXTH—JAVERT — CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP15 min
  55. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE6 min
  56. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE8 min
  57. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL36 min
  58. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP6 min
  59. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES19 min
  60. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF12 min
  61. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE8 min
  62. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR6 min
  63. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION13 min
  64. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS13 min
  65. BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED8 min
  66. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR5 min
  67. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY7 min
  68. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED7 min
  69. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS7 min
  70. BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB10 min
  71. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES3 min
  72. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT13 min
  73. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 18155 min
  74. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER IV—A4 min
  75. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES6 min
  76. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VI—FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON5 min
  77. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR10 min
  78. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE5 min
  79. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED7 min
  80. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN9 min
  81. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BÜLOW3 min
  82. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XII—THE GUARD3 min
  83. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE5 min
  84. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE2 min
  85. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE4 min
  86. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?9 min
  87. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?3 min
  88. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT5 min
  89. BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT11 min
  90. BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,4305 min
  91. BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE DEVIL’S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY9 min
  92. BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER15 min
  93. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL7 min
  94. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS10 min
  95. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER4 min
  96. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL3 min
  97. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE10 min
  98. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE’S INTELLIGENCE9 min
  99. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK4 min
  100. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE’S HOUSE A POOR MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN29 min
  101. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER IX— THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANŒUVRES13 min
  102. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE9 min
  103. BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY3 min
  104. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU11 min
  105. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER3 min
  106. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE7 min
  107. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT4 min
  108. BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT6 min
  109. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY7 min
  110. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D’AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES3 min
  111. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 17276 min
  112. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT5 min
  113. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS7 min
  114. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA5 min
  115. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA4 min
  116. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS4 min
  117. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL6 min
  118. BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT16 min
  119. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS7 min
  120. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA12 min
  121. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES3 min
  122. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES6 min
  123. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS10 min
  124. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT5 min
  125. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS4 min
  126. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES3 min
  127. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE4 min
  128. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER X—ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION3 min
  129. BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS3 min
  130. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA1 min
  131. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT5 min
  132. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST4 min
  133. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES3 min
  134. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER V—PRAYER2 min
  135. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER4 min
  136. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME2 min
  137. BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW4 min
  138. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT14 min
  139. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY4 min
  140. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE15 min
  141. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO10 min
  142. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL10 min
  143. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS3 min
  144. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON’T LOSE THE CARD12 min
  145. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY5 min
  146. BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED13 min
  147. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER I—PARVULUS2 min
  148. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER II—SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS3 min
  149. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE2 min
  150. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE2 min
  151. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS4 min
  152. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY4 min
  153. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA4 min
  154. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING3 min
  155. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL2 min
  156. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO5 min
  157. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN4 min
  158. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE2 min
  159. BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE5 min
  160. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH4 min
  161. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER II—LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE2 min
  162. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT2 min
  163. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER IV—A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT2 min
  164. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER V—BASQUE AND NICOLETTE3 min
  165. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN4 min
  166. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING1 min
  167. BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR4 min
  168. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON6 min
  169. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH12 min
  170. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT14 min
  171. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND6 min
  172. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST3 min
  173. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN12 min
  174. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT8 min
  175. BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE9 min
  176. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC24 min
  177. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU’S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET6 min
  178. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER III—MARIUS’ ASTONISHMENTS4 min
  179. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN13 min
  180. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON7 min
  181. BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA4 min
  182. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT4 min
  183. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR6 min
  184. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP9 min
  185. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF8 min
  186. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY4 min
  187. BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE8 min
  188. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES6 min
  189. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST4 min
  190. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING2 min
  191. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY6 min
  192. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER V—DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA’AM BOUGON2 min
  193. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER5 min
  194. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES4 min
  195. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VIII—THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY3 min
  196. BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE4 min
  197. BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS4 min
  198. BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS3 min
  199. BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE5 min
  200. BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE5 min
  201. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP4 min
  202. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE3 min
  203. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS7 min
  204. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY12 min
  205. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE5 min
  206. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR8 min
  207. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS6 min
  208. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL4 min
  209. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER IX—JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING7 min
  210. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR6 min
  211. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS5 min
  212. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC’S FIVE-FRANC PIECE8 min
  213. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER5 min
  214. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER6 min
  215. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES4 min
  216. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVI—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH WAS IN FASHION IN 18326 min
  217. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS’ FIVE-FRANC PIECE7 min
  218. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS’ TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS3 min
  219. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIX—OCCUPYING ONE’S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS8 min
  220. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP43 min
  221. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS6 min
  222. BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XXII—THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO3 min
  223. VOLUME IV SAINT-DENIS — BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER I—WELL CUT10 min
  224. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED6 min
  225. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE13 min
  226. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION12 min
  227. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES18 min
  228. BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS7 min
  229. BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER I—THE LARK’S MEADOW11 min
  230. BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS8 min
  231. BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF7 min
  232. BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS8 min
  233. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET9 min
  234. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD5 min
  235. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS7 min
  236. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE9 min
  237. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR8 min
  238. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN6 min
  239. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF10 min
  240. BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG18 min
  241. BOOK FOURTH—SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH — CHAPTER I—A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN4 min
  242. BOOK FOURTH—SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH — CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON14 min
  243. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER I—SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED3 min
  244. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER II—COSETTE’S APPREHENSIONS6 min
  245. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER III—ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT5 min
  246. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE6 min
  247. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER5 min
  248. BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY6 min
  249. BOOK SIXTH—LITTLE GAVROCHE — CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND6 min
  250. BOOK SIXTH—LITTLE GAVROCHE — CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT36 min
  251. BOOK SIXTH—LITTLE GAVROCHE — CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT23 min
  252. BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER I—ORIGIN13 min
  253. BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER II—ROOTS15 min
  254. BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS8 min
  255. BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE8 min
  256. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT10 min
  257. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER II—THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS4 min
  258. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW6 min
  259. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG12 min
  260. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER V—THINGS OF THE NIGHT2 min
  261. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER VI—MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING COSETTE HIS ADDRESS10 min
  262. BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER21 min
  263. BOOK NINTH—WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? — CHAPTER I—JEAN VALJEAN3 min
  264. BOOK NINTH—WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? — CHAPTER II—MARIUS5 min
  265. BOOK NINTH—WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? — CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF7 min
  266. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION6 min
  267. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER11 min
  268. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN10 min
  269. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS9 min
  270. BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS5 min
  271. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE’S POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY4 min
  272. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH6 min
  273. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER III—JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER3 min
  274. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER IV—THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN3 min
  275. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER V—THE OLD MAN3 min
  276. BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER VI—RECRUITS3 min
  277. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION10 min
  278. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES17 min
  279. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE6 min
  280. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP7 min
  281. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER V—PREPARATIONS4 min
  282. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER VI—WAITING4 min
  283. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES6 min
  284. BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC8 min
  285. BOOK THIRTEENTH—MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW — CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS5 min
  286. BOOK THIRTEENTH—MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW — CHAPTER II—AN OWL’S VIEW OF PARIS5 min
  287. BOOK THIRTEENTH—MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW — CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE11 min
  288. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST5 min
  289. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER II—THE FLAG: ACT SECOND5 min
  290. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER III—GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS’ CARBINE2 min
  291. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER IV—THE BARREL OF POWDER5 min
  292. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER V—END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE3 min
  293. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER VI—THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE7 min
  294. BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES7 min
  295. BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER16 min
  296. BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER II—THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT7 min
  297. BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER III—WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP3 min
  298. BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE’S EXCESS OF ZEAL8 min
  299. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE13 min
  300. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE7 min
  301. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW3 min
  302. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE11 min
  303. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE8 min
  304. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER VI—MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC4 min
  305. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED7 min
  306. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY5 min
  307. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 17963 min
  308. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER X—DAWN7 min
  309. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE2 min
  310. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER6 min
  311. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XIII—PASSING GLEAMS4 min
  312. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS’ MISTRESS4 min
  313. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE5 min
  314. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER15 min
  315. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XVII—MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT3 min
  316. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY6 min
  317. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE4 min
  318. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG16 min
  319. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES8 min
  320. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT7 min
  321. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK6 min
  322. BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER5 min
  323. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA7 min
  324. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER6 min
  325. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU6 min
  326. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER IV7 min
  327. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS3 min
  328. BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS9 min
  329. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES12 min
  330. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION4 min
  331. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER III—THE “SPUN” MAN8 min
  332. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS7 min
  333. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS WHICH IS TREACHEROUS9 min
  334. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS4 min
  335. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING5 min
  336. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL9 min
  337. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD8 min
  338. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER X—RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE3 min
  339. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER XI—CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE3 min
  340. BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER11 min
  341. BOOK FOURTH—JAVERT DERAILED — CHAPTER I22 min
  342. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN6 min
  343. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR9 min
  344. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER III—MARIUS ATTACKED6 min
  345. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER IV—MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER HIS ARM9 min
  346. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER V—DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY3 min
  347. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY15 min
  348. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER VII—THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS5 min
  349. BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND8 min
  350. BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 183315 min
  351. BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING17 min
  352. BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE5 min
  353. BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 688 min
  354. BOOK SEVENTH—THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP — CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN32 min
  355. BOOK SEVENTH—THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP — CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN15 min
  356. BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER8 min
  357. BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS5 min
  358. BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER III—THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET8 min
  359. BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION4 min
  360. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY4 min
  361. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER II—LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL3 min
  362. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT’S CART6 min
  363. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING32 min
  364. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY18 min
  365. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES2 min
  366. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — LETTER TO M. DAELLI6 min
  367. BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — FOOTNOTES:9 min
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