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  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Preface
  4. Les Misérables
    1. Volume I: Fantine
      1. Book I: A Just Man
        1. I: M. Myriel
        2. II: M. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome
        3. III: A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop
        4. IV: Works Corresponding to Words
        5. V: Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long
        6. VI: Who Guarded His House for Him
        7. VII: Cravatte
        8. VIII: Philosophy After Drinking
        9. IX: The Brother as Depicted by the Sister
        10. X: The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light
        11. XI: A Restriction
        12. XII: The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome
        13. XIII: What He Believed
        14. XIV: What He Thought
      2. Book II: The Fall
        1. I: The Evening of a Day of Walking
        2. II: Prudence Counselled to Wisdom.
        3. III: The Heroism of Passive Obedience.
        4. IV: Details Concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier.
        5. V: Tranquillity
        6. VI: Jean Valjean
        7. VII: The Interior of Despair
        8. VIII: Billows and Shadows
        9. IX: New Troubles
        10. X: The Man Aroused
        11. XI: What He Does
        12. XII: The Bishop Works
        13. XIII: Little Gervais
      3. Book III: In the Year 1817
        1. I: The Year 1817
        2. II: A Double Quartette
        3. III: Four and Four
        4. IV: Tholomyès Is So Merry That He Sings a Spanish Ditty
        5. V: At Bombarda’s
        6. VI: A Chapter in Which They Adore Each Other
        7. VII: The Wisdom of Tholomyès
        8. VIII: The Death of a Horse
        9. IX: A Merry End to Mirth
      4. Book IV: To Confide Is Sometimes to Deliver Into a Person’s Power
        1. I: One Mother Meets Another Mother
        2. II: First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures
        3. III: The Lark
      5. Book V: The Descent
        1. I: The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets
        2. II: Madeleine
        3. III: Sums Deposited with Laffitte
        4. IV: M. Madeleine in Mourning
        5. V: Vague Flashes on the Horizon
        6. VI: Father Fauchelevent
        7. VII: Fauchelevent Becomes a Gardener in Paris
        8. VIII: Madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs on Morality
        9. IX: Madame Victurnien’s Success
        10. X: Result of the Success
        11. XI: Christus Nos Liberavit
        12. XII: M. Bamatabois’s Inactivity
        13. XIII: The Solution of Some Questions Connected with the Municipal Police
      6. Book VI: Javert
        1. I: The Beginning of Repose
        2. II: How Jean May Become Champ
      7. Book VII: The Champmathieu Affair
        1. I: Sister Simplice
        2. II: The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire
        3. III: A Tempest in a Skull
        4. IV: Forms Assumed by Suffering During Sleep
        5. V: Hindrances
        6. VI: Sister Simplice Put to the Proof
        7. VII: The Traveller on His Arrival Takes Precautions for Departure
        8. VIII: An Entrance by Favor
        9. IX: A Place Where Convictions Are in Process of Formation
        10. X: The System of Denials
        11. XI: Champmathieu More and More Astonished
      8. Book VIII: A Counterblow
        1. I: In What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair
        2. II: Fantine Happy
        3. III: Javert Satisfied
        4. IV: Authority Reasserts Its Rights
        5. V: A Suitable Tomb
    2. Volume II: Cosette
      1. Book I: Waterloo
        1. I: What Is Met with on the Way from Nivelles
        2. II: Hougomont
        3. III: The Eighteenth of June, 1815
        4. IV: A
        5. V: The Quid Obscurum of Battles
        6. VI: Four O’Clock in the Afternoon
        7. VII: Napoleon in a Good Humor
        8. VIII: The Emperor Puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste
        9. IX: The Unexpected
        10. X: The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean
        11. XI: A Bad Guide to Napoleon; A Good Guide to Bülow
        12. XII: The Guard
        13. XIII: The Catastrophe
        14. XIV: The Last Square
        15. XV: Cambronne
        16. XVI: Quot Libras in Duce?
        17. XVII: Is Waterloo to Be Considered Good?
        18. XVIII: A Recrudescence of Divine Right
        19. XIX: The Battlefield at Night
      2. Book II: The Ship Orion
        1. I: Number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430
        2. II: In Which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, Which Are of the Devil’s Composition, Possibly
        3. III: The Ankle-Chain Must Have Undergone a Certain Preparatory Manipulation to Be Thus Broken with a Blow from a Hammer
      3. Book III: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman
        1. I: The Water Question at Montfermeil
        2. II: Two Complete Portraits
        3. III: Men Must Have Wine, and Horses Must Have Water
        4. IV: Entrance on the Scene of a Doll
        5. V: The Little One All Alone
        6. VI: Which Possibly Proves Boulatruelle’s Intelligence
        7. VII: Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark
        8. VIII: The Unpleasantness of Receiving Into One’s House a Poor Man Who May Be a Rich Man
        9. IX: Thénardier and His Manouvres
        10. X: He Who Seeks to Better Himself May Render His Situation Worse
        11. XI: Number 9,430 Reappears, and Cosette Wins It in the Lottery
      4. Book IV: The Gorbeau Hovel
        1. I: Master Gorbeau
        2. II: A Nest for Owl and a Warbler
        3. III: Two Misfortunes Make One Piece of Good Fortune
        4. IV: The Remarks of the Principal Tenant
        5. V: A Five-Franc Piece Falls on the Ground and Produces a Tumult
      5. Book V: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack
        1. I: The Zigzags of Strategy
        2. II: It Is Lucky That the Pont d’Austerlitz Bears Carriages
        3. III: To Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727
        4. IV: The Gropings of Flight
        5. V: Which Would Be Impossible with Gas Lanterns
        6. VI: The Beginning of an Enigma
        7. VII: Continuation of the Enigma
        8. VIII: The Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious
        9. IX: The Man with the Bell
        10. X: Which Explains How Javert Got on the Scent
      6. Book VI: Le Petit-Picpus
        1. I: Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus
        2. II: The Obedience of Martin Verga
        3. III: Austerities
        4. IV: Gayeties
        5. V: Distractions
        6. VI: The Little Convent
        7. VII: Some Silhouettes of This Darkness
        8. VIII: Post Corda Lapides
        9. IX: A Century Under a Guimpe
        10. X: Origin of the Perpetual Adoration
        11. XI: End of the Petit-Picpus
      7. Book VII: Parenthesis
        1. I: The Convent as an Abstract Idea
        2. II: The Convent as an Historical Fact
        3. III: On What Conditions One Can Respect the Past
        4. IV: The Convent from the Point of View of Principles
        5. V: Prayer
        6. VI: The Absolute Goodness of Prayer
        7. VII: Precautions to Be Observed in Blame
        8. VIII: Faith, Law
      8. Book VIII: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them
        1. I: Which Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent
        2. II: Fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty
        3. III: Mother Innocente
        4. IV: In Which Jean Valjean Has Quite the Air of Having Read Austin Castillejo
        5. V: It Is Not Necessary to Be Drunk in Order to Be Immortal
        6. VI: Between Four Planks
        7. VII: In Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don’t Lose the Card
        8. VIII: A Successful Interrogatory
        9. IX: Cloistered
    3. Volume III: Marius
      1. Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom
        1. I: Parvulus
        2. II: Some of His Particular Characteristics
        3. III: He Is Agreeable
        4. IV: He May Be of Use
        5. V: His Frontiers
        6. VI: A Bit of History
        7. VII: The Gamin Should Have His Place in the Classifications of India
        8. VIII: In Which the Reader Will Find a Charming Saying of the Last King
        9. IX: The Old Soul of Gaul
        10. X: Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo
        11. XI: To Scoff, to Reign
        12. XII: The Future Latent in the People
        13. XIII: Little Gavroche
      2. Book II: The Great Bourgeois
        1. I: Ninety Years and Thirty-Two Teeth
        2. II: Like Master, Like House
        3. III: Luc-Esprit
        4. IV: A Centenarian Aspirant
        5. V: Basque and Nicolette
        6. VI: In Which Magnon and Her Two Children Are Seen
        7. VII: Rule: Receive No One Except in the Evening
        8. VIII: Two Do Not Make a Pair
      3. Book III: The Grandfather and the Grandson
        1. I: An Ancient Salon
        2. II: One of the Red Spectres of That Epoch
        3. III: Requiescant
        4. IV: End of the Brigand
        5. V: The Utility of Going to Mass, in Order to Become a Revolutionist
        6. VI: The Consequences of Having Met a Warden
        7. VII: Some Petticoat
        8. VIII: Marble Against Granite
      4. Book IV: The Friends of the ABC
        1. I: A Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic
        2. II: Blondeau’s Funeral Oration by Bossuet
        3. III: Marius’ Astonishments
        4. IV: The Back Room of the Café Musain
        5. V: Enlargement of Horizon
        6. VI: Res Angusta
      5. Book V: The Excellence of Misfortune
        1. I: Marius Indigent
        2. II: Marius Poor
        3. III: Marius Grown Up
        4. IV: M. Mabeuf
        5. V: Poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery
        6. VI: The Substitute
      6. Book VI: The Conjunction of Two Stars
        1. I: The Sobriquet: Mode of Formation of Family Names
        2. II: Lux Facta Est
        3. III: Effect of the Spring
        4. IV: Beginning of a Great Malady
        5. V: Divers Claps of Thunder Fall on Ma’Am Bougon
        6. VI: Taken Prisoner
        7. VII: Adventures of the Letter U Delivered Over to Conjectures
        8. VIII: The Veterans Themselves Can Be Happy
        9. IX: Eclipse
      7. Book VII: Patron Minette
        1. I: Mines and Miners
        2. II: The Lowest Depths
        3. III: Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse
        4. IV: Composition of the Troupe
      8. Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man
        1. I: Marius, While Seeking a Girl in a Bonnet, Encounters a Man in a Cap
        2. II: Treasure Trove
        3. III: Quadrifrons
        4. IV: A Rose in Misery
        5. V: A Providential Peephole
        6. VI: The Wild Man in His Lair
        7. VII: Strategy and Tactics
        8. VIII: The Ray of Light in the Hovel
        9. IX: Jondrette Comes Near Weeping
        10. X: Tariff of Licensed Cabs: Two Francs an Hour
        11. XI: Offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness
        12. XII: The Use Made of M. Leblanc’s Five-Franc Piece
        13. XIII: Solus Cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabuntur Orare Pater Noster
        14. XIV: In Which a Police Agent Bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer
        15. XV: Jondrette Makes His Purchases
        16. XVI: In Which Will Be Found the Words to an English Air Which Was in Fashion in 1832
        17. XVII: The Use Made of Marius’ Five-Franc Piece
        18. XVIII: Marius’ Two Chairs Form a Vis-A-Vis
        19. XIX: Occupying One’s Self with Obscure Depths
        20. XX: The Trap
        21. XXI: One Should Always Begin by Arresting the Victims
        22. XXII: The Little One Who Was Crying in Volume Two
    4. Volume IV: The Idyl in the Rue Plumet and the Epic in the Rue Saint-Denis
      1. Book I: A Few Pages of History
        1. I: Well Cut
        2. II: Badly Sewed
        3. III: Louis Philippe
        4. IV: Cracks Beneath the Foundation
        5. V: Facts Whence History Springs and Which History Ignores
        6. VI: Enjolras and His Lieutenants
      2. Book II: Éponine
        1. I: The Lark’s Meadow
        2. II: Embryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons
        3. III: Apparition to Father Mabeuf
        4. IV: An Apparition to Marius
      3. Book III: The House in the Rue Plumet
        1. I: The House with a Secret
        2. II: Jean Valjean as a National Guard
        3. III: Foliis Ac Frondibus
        4. IV: Change of Gate
        5. V: The Rose Perceives That It Is an Engine of War
        6. VI: The Battle Begun
        7. VII: To One Sadness Oppose a Sadness and a Half
        8. VIII: The Chain-Gang
      4. Book IV: Succor from Below May Turn Out to Be Succor from on High
        1. I: A Wound Without, Healing Within
        2. II: Mother Plutarque Finds No Difficulty in Explaining a Phenomenon
      5. Book V: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning
        1. I: Solitude and the Barracks Combined
        2. II: Cosette’s Apprehensions
        3. III: Enriched with Commentaries by Toussaint
        4. IV: A Heart Beneath a Stone
        5. V: Cosette After the Letter
        6. VI: Old People Are Made to Go Out Opportunely
      6. Book VI: Little Gavroche
        1. I: The Malicious Playfulness of the Wind
        2. II: In Which Little Gavroche Extracts Profit from Napoleon the Great
        3. III: The Vicissitudes of Flight
      7. Book VII: Slang
        1. I: Origin
        2. II: Roots
        3. III: Slang Which Weeps and Slang Which Laughs
        4. IV: The Two Duties: To Watch and to Hope
      8. Book VIII: Enchantments and Desolations
        1. I: Full Light
        2. II: The Bewilderment of Perfect Happiness
        3. III: The Beginning of Shadow
        4. IV: A Cab Runs in English and Barks in Slang
        5. V: Things of the Night
        6. VI: Marius Becomes Practical Once More to the Extent of Giving Cosette His Address
        7. VII: The Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each Other
      9. Book IX: Whither Are They Going?
        1. I: Jean Valjean
        2. II: Marius
        3. III: M. Mabeuf
      10. Book X: The 5th of June, 1832
        1. I: The Surface of the Question
        2. II: The Root of the Matter
        3. III: A Burial; An Occasion to Be Born Again
        4. IV: The Ebullitions of Former Days
        5. V: Originality of Paris
      11. Book XI: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane
        1. I: Some Explanations with Regard to the Origin of Gavroche’s Poetry.
        2. II: Gavroche on the March
        3. III: Just Indignation of a Hairdresser
        4. IV: The Child Is Amazed at the Old Man
        5. V: The Old Man
        6. VI: Recruits
      12. Book XII: Corinthe
        1. I: History of Corinthe from Its Foundation
        2. II: Preliminary Gayeties
        3. III: Night Begins to Descend Upon Grantaire
        4. IV: An Attempt to Console the Widow Hucheloup
        5. V: Preparations
        6. VI: Waiting
        7. VII: The Man Recruited in the Rue Des Billettes
        8. VIII: Many Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain le Cabuc
      13. Book XIII: Marius Enters the Shadow
        1. I: From the Rue Plumet to the Quartier Saint-Denis
        2. II: An Owl’s View of Paris
        3. III: The Extreme Edge
      14. Book XIV: The Grandeurs of Despair
        1. I: The Flag: Act First
        2. II: The Flag: Act Second
        3. III: Gavroche Would Have Done Better to Accept Enjolras’ Carbine
        4. IV: The Barrel of Powder
        5. V: End of the Verses of Jean Prouvaire
        6. VI: The Agony of Death After the Agony of Life
        7. VII: Gavroche as a Profound Calculator of Distances
      15. Book XV: The Rue de L’Homme Armé
        1. I: A Drinker Is a Babbler
        2. II: The Street Urchin an Enemy of Light
        3. III: While Cosette and Toussaint Are Asleep
        4. IV: Gavroche’s Excess of Zeal
    5. Volume V: Jean Valjean
      1. Book I: The War Between Four Walls
        1. I: The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla
        2. II: What Is to Be Done in the Abyss if One Does Not Converse
        3. III: Light and Shadow
        4. IV: Minus Five, Plus One
        5. V: The Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a Barricade
        6. VI: Marius Haggard, Javert Laconic
        7. VII: The Situation Becomes Aggravated
        8. VIII: The Artillerymen Compel People to Take Them Seriously
        9. IX: Employment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That Infallible Marksmanship Which Influenced the Condemnation of 1796
        10. X: Dawn
        11. XI: The Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One
        12. XII: Disorder a Partisan of Order
        13. XIII: Passing Gleams
        14. XIV: Wherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras’ Mistress
        15. XV: Gavroche Outside
        16. XVI: How from a Brother One Becomes a Father
        17. XVII: Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat
        18. XVIII: The Vulture Become Prey
        19. XIX: Jean Valjean Takes His Revenge
        20. XX: The Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the Wrong
        21. XXI: The Heroes
        22. XXII: Foot to Foot
        23. XXIII: Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk
        24. XXIV: Prisoner
      2. Book II: The Intestine of the Leviathan
        1. I: The Land Impoverished by the Sea
        2. II: Ancient History of the Sewer
        3. III: Bruneseau
        4. IV
        5. V: Present Progress
        6. VI: Future Progress
      3. Book III: Mud but the Soul
        1. I: The Sewer and Its Surprises
        2. II: Explanation
        3. III: The “Spun” Man
        4. IV: He Also Bears His Cross
        5. V: In the Case of Sand as in That of Woman, There Is a Fineness Which Is Treacherous
        6. VI: The Fontis
        7. VII: One Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is Disembarking
        8. VIII: The Torn Coattail
        9. IX: Marius Produces on Some One Who Is a Judge of the Matter, the Effect of Being Dead
        10. X: Return of the Son Who Was Prodigal of His Life
        11. XI: Concussion in the Absolute
        12. XII: The Grandfather
      4. Book IV: Javert Derailed
        1. I
      5. Book V: Grandson and Grandfather
        1. I: In Which the Tree with the Zinc Plaster Appears Again
        2. II: Marius, Emerging from Civil War, Makes Ready for Domestic War
        3. III: Marius Attacked
        4. IV: Mademoiselle Gillenormand Ends by No Longer Thinking It a Bad Thing That M. Fauchelevent Should Have Entered with Something Under His Arm
        5. V: Deposit Your Money in a Forest Rather Than with a Notary
        6. VI: The Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own Fashion, to Render Cosette Happy
        7. VII: The Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happiness
        8. VIII: Two Men Impossible to Find
      6. Book VI: The Sleepless Night
        1. I: The 16th of February, 1833
        2. II: Jean Valjean Still Wears His Arm in a Sling
        3. III: The Inseparable
        4. IV: The Immortal Liver
      7. Book VII: The Last Draught from the Cup
        1. I: The Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven
        2. II: The Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Contain
      8. Book VIII: Fading Away of the Twilight
        1. I: The Lower Chamber
        2. II: Another Step Backwards
        3. III: They Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumet
        4. IV: Attraction and Extinction
      9. Book IX: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn
        1. I: Pity for the Unhappy, but Indulgence for the Happy
        2. II: Last Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil
        3. III: A Pen Is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent’s Cart
        4. IV: A Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whitening
        5. V: A Night Behind Which There Is Day
        6. VI: The Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces
  5. Endnotes
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Colophon
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