Contents · 367 sections
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL5 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME8 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP4 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS14 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG5 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM10 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE6 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING7 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER7 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT22 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION8 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME6 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED8 min
- BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN — CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT5 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING20 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.7 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.10 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER.7 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY3 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN10 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR14 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS4 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES3 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED6 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES7 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS6 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE FALL — CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS16 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 181711 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE8 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR7 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY5 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA’S5 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER3 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS10 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE4 min
- BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817 — CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH5 min
- BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER16 min
- BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES4 min
- BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER — CHAPTER III—THE LARK5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS3 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER II—MADELEINE7 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE6 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON10 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS2 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN’S SUCCESS5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS9 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT2 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS’S INACTIVITY5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE18 min
- BOOK SIXTH—JAVERT — CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE6 min
- BOOK SIXTH—JAVERT — CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP15 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE6 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE8 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL36 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP6 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES19 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF12 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE8 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR6 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION13 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS13 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR — CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED8 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW — CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB10 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES3 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT13 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 18155 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER IV—A4 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES6 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VI—FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON5 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR10 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE5 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED7 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN9 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BÜLOW3 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XII—THE GUARD3 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE5 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE2 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE4 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?9 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?3 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT5 min
- BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO — CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT11 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,4305 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION — CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE DEVIL’S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY9 min
- 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
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL7 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS10 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER4 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL3 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE10 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE’S INTELLIGENCE9 min
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK4 min
- 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
- BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN — CHAPTER IX— THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANŒUVRES13 min
- 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
- 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
- BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU11 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER3 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE7 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT4 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL — CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT6 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY7 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D’AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES3 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 17276 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS7 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL6 min
- BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK — CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT16 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS7 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA12 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES3 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES6 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS10 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT5 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS4 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES3 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE4 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER X—ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION3 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS — CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS3 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA1 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT5 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST4 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES3 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER V—PRAYER2 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER4 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME2 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS — CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW4 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT14 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY4 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE15 min
- 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
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL10 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS3 min
- 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
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM — CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED13 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER I—PARVULUS2 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER II—SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS3 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE2 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE2 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS4 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY4 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA4 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING3 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL2 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO5 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN4 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE2 min
- BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM — CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE5 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH4 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER II—LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE2 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT2 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER IV—A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT2 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER V—BASQUE AND NICOLETTE3 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN4 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING1 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS — CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR4 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON6 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH12 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT14 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND6 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST3 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN12 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT8 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON — CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE9 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC24 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU’S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET6 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER III—MARIUS’ ASTONISHMENTS4 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN13 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON7 min
- BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C — CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR6 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP9 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF8 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY4 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE8 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES6 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST4 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING2 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY6 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER V—DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA’AM BOUGON2 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER5 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES4 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER VIII—THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY3 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS — CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE4 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS4 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS3 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE5 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE — CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP4 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE3 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY12 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR8 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS6 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL4 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER IX—JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR6 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC’S FIVE-FRANC PIECE8 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER6 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES4 min
- 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
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS’ FIVE-FRANC PIECE7 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS’ TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS3 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XIX—OCCUPYING ONE’S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS8 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP43 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS6 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN — CHAPTER XXII—THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO3 min
- VOLUME IV SAINT-DENIS — BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER I—WELL CUT10 min
- BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED6 min
- BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE13 min
- BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION12 min
- BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES18 min
- BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY — CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS7 min
- BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER I—THE LARK’S MEADOW11 min
- BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS8 min
- BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF7 min
- BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE — CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS8 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET9 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD5 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS7 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE9 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR8 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN6 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF10 min
- BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET — CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG18 min
- BOOK FOURTH—SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH — CHAPTER I—A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN4 min
- 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
- BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER I—SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED3 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER II—COSETTE’S APPREHENSIONS6 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER III—ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE6 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING — CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY6 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LITTLE GAVROCHE — CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND6 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LITTLE GAVROCHE — CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT36 min
- BOOK SIXTH—LITTLE GAVROCHE — CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT23 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER I—ORIGIN13 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER II—ROOTS15 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS8 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG — CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE8 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT10 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER II—THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS4 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW6 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG12 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER V—THINGS OF THE NIGHT2 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER VI—MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING COSETTE HIS ADDRESS10 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS — CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER21 min
- BOOK NINTH—WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? — CHAPTER I—JEAN VALJEAN3 min
- BOOK NINTH—WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? — CHAPTER II—MARIUS5 min
- BOOK NINTH—WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? — CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF7 min
- BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION6 min
- BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER11 min
- BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN10 min
- BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS9 min
- BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 — CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS5 min
- 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
- BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH6 min
- BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER III—JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER3 min
- BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER IV—THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN3 min
- BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER V—THE OLD MAN3 min
- BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE — CHAPTER VI—RECRUITS3 min
- BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION10 min
- BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES17 min
- BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE6 min
- BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP7 min
- BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER V—PREPARATIONS4 min
- BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER VI—WAITING4 min
- BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES6 min
- BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE — CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC8 min
- BOOK THIRTEENTH—MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW — CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS5 min
- BOOK THIRTEENTH—MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW — CHAPTER II—AN OWL’S VIEW OF PARIS5 min
- BOOK THIRTEENTH—MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW — CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE11 min
- BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST5 min
- BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER II—THE FLAG: ACT SECOND5 min
- BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER III—GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS’ CARBINE2 min
- BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER IV—THE BARREL OF POWDER5 min
- BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER V—END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE3 min
- BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER VI—THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE7 min
- BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR — CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES7 min
- BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER16 min
- BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER II—THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT7 min
- BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER III—WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP3 min
- BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ — CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE’S EXCESS OF ZEAL8 min
- 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
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE7 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW3 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE11 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE8 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER VI—MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC4 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED7 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY5 min
- 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
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER X—DAWN7 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE2 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER6 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XIII—PASSING GLEAMS4 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS’ MISTRESS4 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE5 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER15 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XVII—MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT3 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY6 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE4 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG16 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES8 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT7 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK6 min
- BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS — CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER5 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA7 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER6 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU6 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER IV7 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS3 min
- BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN — CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS9 min
- BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES12 min
- BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION4 min
- BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER III—THE “SPUN” MAN8 min
- BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS7 min
- 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
- BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS4 min
- BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING5 min
- BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL9 min
- 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
- BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER X—RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE3 min
- BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER XI—CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE3 min
- BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL — CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER11 min
- BOOK FOURTH—JAVERT DERAILED — CHAPTER I22 min
- BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN6 min
- BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR9 min
- BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER III—MARIUS ATTACKED6 min
- 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
- BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER V—DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY3 min
- BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY15 min
- BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER VII—THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS5 min
- BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER — CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND8 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 183315 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING17 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE5 min
- BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT — CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 688 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP — CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN32 min
- BOOK SEVENTH—THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP — CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN15 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER8 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS5 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER III—THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET8 min
- BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT — CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION4 min
- BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY4 min
- BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER II—LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL3 min
- BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT’S CART6 min
- BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING32 min
- BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY18 min
- BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES2 min
- BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — LETTER TO M. DAELLI6 min
- BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN — FOOTNOTES:9 min
Les Miserables · Victor Hugo
BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT — CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE
Read online · About 18 minutesJavert thrust aside the spectators, broke the circle, and set out with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him. She yielded mechanically. Neither he nor she uttered a word. The cloud of spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery an occasion for obscenity.
On arriving at the police station, which was a low room, warmed by a stove, with a glazed and grated door opening on the street, and guarded by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who raised themselves on tiptoe, and craned their necks in front of the thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour.
On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, crouching down like a terrified dog.
The sergeant of the guard brought a lighted candle to the table. Javert seated himself, drew a sheet of stamped paper from his pocket, and began to write.
This class of women is consigned by our laws entirely to the discretion of the police. The latter do what they please, punish them, as seems good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously and deeply preoccupied. It was one of those moments when he was exercising without control, but subject to all the scruples of a severe conscience, his redoubtable discretionary power. At that moment he was conscious that his police agent’s stool was a tribunal. He was entering judgment. He judged and condemned. He summoned all the ideas which could possibly exist in his mind, around the great thing which he was doing. The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. He had just beheld, yonder, in the street, society, in the person of a freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a citizen. He had seen that, he, Javert. He wrote in silence.
When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the sergeant of the guard, as he handed it to him, “Take three men and conduct this creature to jail.”
Then, turning to Fantine, “You are to have six months of it.” The unhappy woman shuddered.
“Six months! six months of prison!” she exclaimed. “Six months in which to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette? My daughter! my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do you know that, Monsieur Inspector?”
She dragged herself across the damp floor, among the muddy boots of all those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides on her knees.
“Monsieur Javert,” said she, “I beseech your mercy. I assure you that I was not in the wrong. If you had seen the beginning, you would have seen. I swear to you by the good God that I was not to blame! That gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has any one the right to put snow down our backs when we are walking along peaceably, and doing no harm to any one? I am rather ill, as you see. And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: ‘You are ugly! you have no teeth!’ I know well that I have no longer those teeth. I did nothing; I said to myself, ‘The gentleman is amusing himself.’ I was honest with him; I did not speak to him. It was at that moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur Inspector! is there not some person here who saw it and can tell you that this is quite true? Perhaps I did wrong to get angry. You know that one is not master of one’s self at the first moment. One gives way to vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your back just when you are not expecting it! I did wrong to spoil that gentleman’s hat. Why did he go away? I would ask his pardon. Oh, my God! It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in prison one can earn only seven sous a day; it is not the government’s fault, but seven sous is one’s earnings; and just fancy, I must pay one hundred francs, or my little girl will be sent to me. Oh, my God! I cannot have her with me. What I do is so vile! Oh, my Cosette! Oh, my little angel of the Holy Virgin! what will become of her, poor creature? I will tell you: it is the Thénardiers, inn-keepers, peasants; and such people are unreasonable. They want money. Don’t put me in prison! You see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to get along as best she may, in the very heart of the winter; and you must have pity on such a being, my good Monsieur Javert. If she were older, she might earn her living; but it cannot be done at that age. I am not a bad woman at bottom. It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only necessary to glance into my closets, and it would have been evident that I was not a coquettish and untidy woman. I had linen, a great deal of linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!”
She spoke thus, rent in twain, shaken with sobs, blinded with tears, her neck bare, wringing her hands, and coughing with a dry, short cough, stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy. At that moment Fantine had become beautiful once more. From time to time she paused, and tenderly kissed the police agent’s coat. She would have softened a heart of granite; but a heart of wood cannot be softened.
“Come!” said Javert, “I have heard you out. Have you entirely finished? You will get six months. Now march! The Eternal Father in person could do nothing more.”
At these solemn words, “the Eternal Father in person could do nothing more,” she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, murmuring, “Mercy!”
Javert turned his back.
The soldiers seized her by the arms.
A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed to him. He shut the door, leaned his back against it, and listened to Fantine’s despairing supplications.
At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate woman, who would not rise, he emerged from the shadow, and said:—
“One moment, if you please.”
Javert raised his eyes and recognized M. Madeleine. He removed his hat, and, saluting him with a sort of aggrieved awkwardness:—
“Excuse me, Mr. Mayor—”
The words “Mr. Mayor” produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. Madeleine before any one could prevent her, and gazing intently at him, with a bewildered air, she cried:—
“Ah! so it is you who are M. le Maire!”
Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face.
M. Madeleine wiped his face, and said:—
“Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty.”
Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of the town spit in the mayor’s face was a thing so monstrous that, in his most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his thought, he made a hideous comparison as to what this woman was, and as to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But when he beheld that mayor, that magistrate, calmly wipe his face and say, “Set this woman at liberty,” he underwent a sort of intoxication of amazement; thought and word failed him equally; the sum total of possible astonishment had been exceeded in his case. He remained mute.
The words had produced no less strange an effect on Fantine. She raised her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a low voice, as though talking to herself:—
“At liberty! I am to be allowed to go! I am not to go to prison for six months! Who said that? It is not possible that any one could have said that. I did not hear aright. It cannot have been that monster of a mayor! Was it you, my good Monsieur Javert, who said that I was to be set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me go. That monster of a mayor, that old blackguard of a mayor, is the cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all because of a pack of rascally women, who gossip in the workroom. If that is not a horror, what is? To dismiss a poor girl who is doing her work honestly! Then I could no longer earn enough, and all this misery followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these gentlemen of the police ought to make, and that is, to prevent prison contractors from wronging poor people. I will explain it to you, you see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become whatever one can. As for me, I had my little Cosette, and I was actually forced to become a bad woman. Now you understand how it is that that blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on that gentleman’s hat in front of the officers’ café; but he had spoiled my whole dress with snow. We women have but one silk dress for evening wear. You see that I did not do wrong deliberately—truly, Monsieur Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders that I am to be set free, was it not? Make inquiries, speak to my landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally touched the damper of the stove, and it has made it smoke.”
M. Madeleine listened to her with profound attention. While she was speaking, he fumbled in his waistcoat, drew out his purse and opened it. It was empty. He put it back in his pocket. He said to Fantine, “How much did you say that you owed?”
Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:—
“Was I speaking to you?”
Then, addressing the soldiers:—
“Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old wretch of a mayor, you came here to frighten me, but I’m not afraid of you. I am afraid of Monsieur Javert. I am afraid of my good Monsieur Javert!”
So saying, she turned to the inspector again:—
“And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I understand that you are just, Mr. Inspector; in fact, it is perfectly simple: a man amuses himself by putting snow down a woman’s back, and that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; and we—well, we are here for them to amuse themselves with, of course! And then, you, you come; you are certainly obliged to preserve order, you lead off the woman who is in the wrong; but on reflection, since you are a good man, you say that I am to be set at liberty; it is for the sake of the little one, for six months in prison would prevent my supporting my child. ‘Only, don’t do it again, you hussy!’ Oh! I won’t do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me now; I will not stir. But to-day, you see, I cried because it hurt me. I was not expecting that snow from the gentleman at all; and then as I told you, I am not well; I have a cough; I seem to have a burning ball in my stomach, and the doctor tells me, ‘Take care of yourself.’ Here, feel, give me your hand; don’t be afraid—it is here.”
She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert’s coarse hand on her delicate, white throat and looked smilingly at him.
All at once she rapidly adjusted her disordered garments, dropped the folds of her skirt, which had been pushed up as she dragged herself along, almost to the height of her knee, and stepped towards the door, saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:—
“Children, Monsieur l’Inspecteur has said that I am to be released, and I am going.”
She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would be in the street.
Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, which is waiting to be put away somewhere.
The sound of the latch roused him. He raised his head with an expression of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in proportion as the authority rests on a low level, ferocious in the wild beast, atrocious in the man of no estate.
“Sergeant!” he cried, “don’t you see that that jade is walking off! Who bade you let her go?”
“I,” said Madeleine.
Fantine trembled at the sound of Javert’s voice, and let go of the latch as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen. At the sound of Madeleine’s voice she turned around, and from that moment forth she uttered no word, nor dared so much as to breathe freely, but her glance strayed from Madeleine to Javert, and from Javert to Madeleine in turn, according to which was speaking.
It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he had done, after the mayor’s suggestion that Fantine should be set at liberty. Had he reached the point of forgetting the mayor’s presence? Had he finally declared to himself that it was impossible that any “authority” should have given such an order, and that the mayor must certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the past two hours, did he say to himself, that it was necessary to recur to supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should be made great, that the police spy should transform himself into a magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and that, in this prodigious extremity, order, law, morality, government, society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert?
However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, I, as we have just heard, Police Inspector Javert was seen to turn toward the mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:—
“Mr. Mayor, that cannot be.”
“Why not?” said M. Madeleine.
“This miserable woman has insulted a citizen.”
“Inspector Javert,” replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, “listen. You are an honest man, and I feel no hesitation in explaining matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing through the square just as you were leading this woman away; there were still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned everything; it was the townsman who was in the wrong and who should have been arrested by properly conducted police.”
Javert retorted:—
“This wretch has just insulted Monsieur le Maire.”
“That concerns me,” said M. Madeleine. “My own insult belongs to me, I think. I can do what I please about it.”
“I beg Monsieur le Maire’s pardon. The insult is not to him but to the law.”
“Inspector Javert,” replied M. Madeleine, “the highest law is conscience. I have heard this woman; I know what I am doing.”
“And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see.”
“Then content yourself with obeying.”
“I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six months in prison.”
M. Madeleine replied gently:—
“Heed this well; she will not serve a single day.”
At this decisive word, Javert ventured to fix a searching look on the mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly respectful:—
“I am sorry to oppose Monsieur le Maire; it is for the first time in my life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my authority. I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the question of the gentleman. I was present. This woman flung herself on Monsieur Bamatabois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, three stories high and entirely of cut stone. Such things as there are in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of police regulations in the streets, and concerns me, and I shall detain this woman Fantine.”
Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no one in the town had heard hitherto:—
“The matter to which you refer is one connected with the municipal police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge. I order that this woman shall be set at liberty.”
Javert ventured to make a final effort.
“But, Mr. Mayor—”
“I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention.”
“Monsieur le Maire, permit me—”
“Not another word.”
“But—”
“Leave the room,” said M. Madeleine.
Javert received the blow erect, full in the face, in his breast, like a Russian soldier. He bowed to the very earth before the mayor and left the room.
Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he passed.
Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing her towards darkness, the other was leading her back towards the light. In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two men had appeared to her like two giants; the one spoke like her demon, the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she abhorred, that mayor whom she had so long regarded as the author of all her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted him in so hideous a fashion, he had saved her! Had she, then, been mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and at every word uttered by M. Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her heart.
When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said to her in a deliberate voice, like a serious man who does not wish to weep and who finds some difficulty in speaking:—
“I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant of the fact that you had left my shop. Why did you not apply to me? But here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go to her. You shall live here, in Paris, or where you please. I undertake the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if you do not like. I will give all the money you require. You shall be honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all is as you say,—and I do not doubt it,—you have never ceased to be virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman.”
This was more than Fantine could bear. To have Cosette! To leave this life of infamy. To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of her misery. She stared stupidly at this man who was talking to her, and could only give vent to two or three sobs, “Oh! Oh! Oh!”
Her limbs gave way beneath her, she knelt in front of M. Madeleine, and before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her lips to it.
Then she fainted.