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Les Miserables — BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES

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 FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES

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Towards the end of April, everything had become aggravated. The fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying conflagration. Something terrible was in preparation. Glimpses could be caught of the features still indistinct and imperfectly lighted, of a possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on the Faubourg Saint-Antoine.

The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its ebullition.

The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and stormy.

The government was there purely and simply called in question. There people publicly discussed the question of fighting or of keeping quiet. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and “that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy.” This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the wine-shop “assumed a sonorous tone,” and said, “You understand! You have sworn!”

Sometimes they went upstairs, to a private room on the first floor, and there scenes that were almost masonic were enacted. They made the initiated take oaths to render service to himself as well as to the fathers of families. That was the formula.

In the tap-rooms, “subversive” pamphlets were read. They treated the government with contempt, says a secret report of that time.

Words like the following could be heard there:—

“I don’t know the names of the leaders. We folks shall not know the day until two hours beforehand.” One workman said: “There are three hundred of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot.”

Another said: “I don’t ask for six months, I don’t ask for even two. In less than a fortnight we shall be parallel with the government. With twenty-five thousand men we can face them.” Another said: “I don’t sleep at night, because I make cartridges all night.” From time to time, men “of bourgeois appearance, and in good coats” came and “caused embarrassment,” and with the air of “command,” shook hands with the most important, and then went away. They never stayed more than ten minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: “The plot is ripe, the matter is arranged.” “It was murmured by all who were there,” to borrow the very expression of one of those who were present. The exaltation was such that one day, a workingman exclaimed, before the whole wine-shop: “We have no arms!” One of his comrades replied: “The soldiers have!” thus parodying without being aware of the fact, Bonaparte’s proclamation to the army in Italy: “When they had anything of a more secret nature on hand,” adds one report, “they did not communicate it to each other.” It is not easy to understand what they could conceal after what they said.

These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there were never more than eight or ten persons present, and they were always the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was so full that they were forced to stand. Some went thither through enthusiasm and passion; others because it was on their way to their work. As during the Revolution, there were patriotic women in some of these wine-shops who embraced newcomers.

Other expressive facts came to light.

A man would enter a shop, drink, and go his way with the remark: “Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you.”

Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps.

Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in the Rue de Cotte. There there was a trophy of arms formed of wooden broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils. One day, the buttons were removed from the foils.

A workman said: “There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t count on me, because I am looked upon as a machine.” Later on, that machine became Quenisset.

The indefinite things which were brewing gradually acquired a strange and indescribable notoriety. A woman sweeping off her doorsteps said to another woman: “For a long time, there has been a strong force busy making cartridges.” In the open street, proclamation could be seen addressed to the National Guard in the departments. One of these proclamations was signed: Burtot, wine-merchant.

One day a man with his beard worn like a collar and with an Italian accent mounted a stone post at the door of a liquor-seller in the Marché Lenoir, and read aloud a singular document, which seemed to emanate from an occult power. Groups formed around him, and applauded.

The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and noted down. “—Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our bill-stickers are spied upon and thrown into prison.”—“The breakdown which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many mediums.”—“The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure ranks.”—“Here are the fixed terms: action or reaction, revolution or counter-revolution. For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the question. There is no other.”—“On the day when we cease to suit you, break us, but up to that day, help us to march on.” All this in broad daylight.

Other deeds, more audacious still, were suspicious in the eyes of the people by reason of their very audacity. On the 4th of April, 1832, a passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the Rue Sainte-Marguerite and shouted: “I am a Babouvist!” But beneath Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet.

Among other things, this man said:—

“Down with property! The opposition of the left is cowardly and treacherous. When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and royalist so that it may not have to fight. The republicans are beasts with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring classes.”

“Silence, citizen spy!” cried an artisan.

This shout put an end to the discourse.

Mysterious incidents occurred.

At nightfall, a workingman encountered near the canal a “very well dressed man,” who said to him: “Whither are you bound, citizen?” “Sir,” replied the workingman, “I have not the honor of your acquaintance.” “I know you very well, however.” And the man added: “Don’t be alarmed, I am an agent of the committee. You are suspected of not being quite faithful. You know that if you reveal anything, there is an eye fixed on you.” Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: “We shall meet again soon.”

The police, who were on the alert, collected singular dialogues, not only in the wine-shops, but in the street.

“Get yourself received very soon,” said a weaver to a cabinet-maker.

“Why?”

“There is going to be a shot to fire.”

Two ragged pedestrians exchanged these remarkable replies, fraught with evident Jacquerie:—

“Who governs us?”

“M. Philippe.”

“No, it is the bourgeoisie.”

The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word Jacquerie in a bad sense. The Jacques were the poor.

On another occasion two men were heard to say to each other as they passed by: “We have a good plan of attack.”

Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men who were crouching in a ditch of the circle of the Barrière du Trône:—

“Everything possible will be done to prevent his walking about Paris any more.”

Who was the he? Menacing obscurity.

“The principal leaders,” as they said in the faubourg, held themselves apart. It was supposed that they met for consultation in a wine-shop near the point Saint-Eustache. A certain Aug—, chief of the Society aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as intermediary central between the leaders and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine.

Nevertheless, there was always a great deal of mystery about these leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:—

“Who was your leader?”

“I knew of none and I recognized none.”

There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle reports, rumors, hearsay. Other indications cropped up.

A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground on which a house was in process of construction, in the Rue de Reuilly found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still legible the following lines:—

The committee must take measures to prevent recruiting in the sections for the different societies.

And, as a postscript:—

We have learned that there are guns in the Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière, No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms.

What excited the carpenter and caused him to show this thing to his neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we reproduce a facsimile, because of the historical interest attaching to these strange documents:—

It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital letters: quinturions, centurions, decurions, éclaireurs [scouts], and the sense of the letters: u og a’ fe, which was a date, and meant April 15th, 1832. Under each capital letter were inscribed names followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. Bannerel. 8 guns, 83 cartridges. A safe man.—C. Boubière. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.—D. Rollet. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.—E. Tessier. 1 sword, 1 cartridge-box. Exact.— Terreur. 8 guns. Brave, etc.

Finally, this carpenter found, still in the same enclosure, a third paper on which was written in pencil, but very legibly, this sort of enigmatical list:—

Unité: Blanchard: Arbre-Sec. 6. Barra. Soize. Salle-au-Comte. Kosciusko. Aubry the Butcher? J. J. R. Caius Gracchus. Right of revision. Dufond. Four. Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. Washington. Pinson. 1 pistol, 86 cartridges. Marseillaise. Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. Hoche. Marceau. Plato. Arbre-Sec. Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the Populaire.

The honest bourgeois into whose hands this list fell knew its significance. It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of the sections of the fourth arondissement of the Society of the Rights of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, when all these facts which were obscure are nothing more than history, we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date when this paper was found. Perhaps this was only a rough draft.

Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written notes, material facts begin to make their appearance.

In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-à-brac, there were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise and in four; these sheets enclosed twenty-six squares of this same gray paper folded in the form of a cartridge, and a card, on which was written the following:—

Saltpetre . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ounces. Sulphur . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. Charcoal . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces and a half. Water . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces.

The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell of powder.

A mason returning from his day’s work, left behind him a little package on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed dialogues, signed Lahautière, a song entitled: “Workmen, band together,” and a tin box full of cartridges.

One artisan drinking with a comrade made the latter feel him to see how warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat.

In a ditch on the boulevard, between Père-Lachaise and the Barrière du Trône, at the most deserted spot, some children, while playing, discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a bag containing a bullet-mould, a wooden punch for the preparation of cartridges, a wooden bowl, in which there were grains of hunting-powder, and a little cast-iron pot whose interior presented evident traces of melted lead.

Police agents, making their way suddenly and unexpectedly at five o’clock in the morning, into the dwelling of a certain Pardon, who was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of preparing.

Towards the hour when workingmen repose, two men were seen to meet between the Barrière Picpus and the Barrière Charenton in a little lane between two walls, near a wine-shop, in front of which there was a “Jeu de Siam.”33 One drew a pistol from beneath his blouse and handed it to the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration of his chest had made the powder damp. He primed the pistol and added more powder to what was already in the pan. Then the two men parted.

A certain Gallais, afterwards killed in the Rue Beaubourg in the affair of April, boasted of having in his house seven hundred cartridges and twenty-four flints.

The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a single one.

An intercepted letter read: “The day is not far distant when, within four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms.”

All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of the government. No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to the working-classes of what was in preparation. They said: “How is the rising coming along?” in the same tone in which they would have said: “How is your wife?”

A furniture-dealer, of the Rue Moreau, inquired: “Well, when are you going to make the attack?”

Another shop-keeper said:—

“The attack will be made soon.”

“I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there are twenty-five thousand.” He offered his gun, and a neighbor offered a small pistol which he was willing to sell for seven francs.

Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing. Not a point in Paris nor in France was exempt from it. The artery was beating everywhere. Like those membranes which arise from certain inflammations and form in the human body, the network of secret societies began to spread all over the country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: Pluviôse, Year 40 of the republican era, which was destined to survive even the mandate of the Court of Assizes which pronounced its dissolution, and which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like the following:—

Pikes. Tocsin. Signal cannon. Phrygian cap. January 21. The beggars. The vagabonds. Forward march. Robespierre. Level. Ça Ira.

The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother societies. The members of sections complained that they were torn asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. Then the Army of the Bastilles, a sort of cohort organized on a military footing, four men commanded by a corporal, ten by a sergeant, twenty by a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with audacity and which seemed stamped with the genius of Venice.

The central committee, which was at the head, had two arms, the Society of Action, and the Army of the Bastilles.

A legitimist association, the Chevaliers of Fidelity, stirred about among these the republican affiliations. It was denounced and repudiated there.

The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of Man, the Charbonnière, and The Free Men. All had a revolutionary society which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word.

In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and the schools were no less moved than the faubourgs. A café in the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe and the wine-shop of the Seven Billiards, Rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, served as rallying points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled also, as we have stated already, in a restaurant wine-shop of the Rue Mondétour which was called Corinthe. These meetings were secret. Others were as public as possible, and the reader can judge of their boldness from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the ulterior prosecutions: “Where was this meeting held?” “In the Rue de la Paix.” “At whose house?” “In the street.” “What sections were there?” “Only one.” “Which?” “The Manuel section.” “Who was its leader?” “I.” “You are too young to have decided alone upon the bold course of attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?” “From the central committee.”

The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They counted on the fifty-second regiment, on the fifth, on the eighth, on the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry. In Burgundy and in the southern towns they planted the liberty tree; that is to say, a pole surmounted by a red cap.

Such was the situation.

The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, more than any other group of the population, as we stated in the beginning, accentuated this situation and made it felt. That was the sore point. This old faubourg, peopled like an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet sombre physiognomy. In this faubourg exists poignant distress hidden under attic roofs; there also exist rare and ardent minds. It is particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is dangerous to have extremes meet.

The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, slack seasons, all inherent to great political disturbances. In times of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the highest degree of latent heat, always ready to fly to arms, prompt to explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very gates of Paris that powder-house of suffering and ideas.

The wine-shops of the Faubourg Antoine, which have been more than once drawn in the sketches which the reader has just perused, possess historical notoriety. In troublous times people grow intoxicated there more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus of the future circulates there, swelling hearts and enlarging souls. The cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the sibylline wine.

The Faubourg Saint-Antoine is a reservoir of people. Revolutionary agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular sovereignty. This sovereignty may do evil; it can be mistaken like any other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as of the blind cyclops, Ingens.

In ’93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, according as it was the day of fanaticism or of enthusiasm, there leaped forth from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine now savage legions, now heroic bands.

Savage. Let us explain this word. When these bristling men, who in the early days of the revolutionary chaos, tattered, howling, wild, with uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in an uproar, what did they want? They wanted an end to oppression, an end to tyranny, an end to the sword, work for men, instruction for the child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible wise, driven to extremities as they were, half naked, club in fist, a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of civilization.

They proclaimed right furiously; they were desirous, if only with fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed barbarians, and they were saviours. They demanded light with the mask of night.

Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, embroidered, gilded, beribboned, starred, in silk stockings, in white plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, of fanaticism, of innocence, of slavery, of the death penalty, of war, glorifying in low tones and with politeness, the sword, the stake, and the scaffold. For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians.

But, thank Heaven, still another choice is possible. No perpendicular fall is necessary, in front any more than in the rear.

Neither despotism nor terrorism. We desire progress with a gentle slope.

God takes care of that. God’s whole policy consists in rendering slopes less steep.

Contents

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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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