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Victor Hugo · Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood

Les Misérables

Move through five volumes in which law, conscience, poverty, revolution, and mercy test what people owe one another.

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Contents

Preface and supplementary material
  1. Preface
Volume 1: Fantine
  1. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 1: A Just Man; Chapter 1: M. Myriel
  2. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 1: A Just Man; Chapter 2: M. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome
  3. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 1: A Just Man; Chapter 3: A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop
  4. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 1: A Just Man; Chapter 4: Works Corresponding to Words
  5. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 1: A Just Man; Chapter 5: Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long
  6. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 1: A Just Man; Chapter 6: Who Guarded His House for Him
  7. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 1: A Just Man; Chapter 7: Cravatte
  8. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 1: A Just Man; Chapter 8: Philosophy After Drinking
  9. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 1: A Just Man; Chapter 9: The Brother as Depicted by the Sister
  10. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 1: A Just Man; Chapter 10: The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light
  11. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 1: A Just Man; Chapter 11: A Restriction
  12. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 1: A Just Man; Chapter 12: The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome
  13. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 1: A Just Man; Chapter 13: What He Believed
  14. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 1: A Just Man; Chapter 14: What He Thought
  15. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 2: The Fall; Chapter 1: The Evening of a Day of Walking
  16. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 2: The Fall; Chapter 2: Prudence Counselled to Wisdom.
  17. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 2: The Fall; Chapter 3: The Heroism of Passive Obedience.
  18. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 2: The Fall; Chapter 4: Details Concerning the Cheese-dairies of Pontarlier.
  19. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 2: The Fall; Chapter 5: Tranquillity
  20. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 2: The Fall; Chapter 6: Jean Valjean
  21. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 2: The Fall; Chapter 7: The Interior of Despair
  22. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 2: The Fall; Chapter 8: Billows and Shadows
  23. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 2: The Fall; Chapter 9: New Troubles
  24. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 2: The Fall; Chapter 10: The Man Aroused
  25. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 2: The Fall; Chapter 11: What He Does
  26. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 2: The Fall; Chapter 12: The Bishop Works
  27. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 2: The Fall; Chapter 13: Little Gervais
  28. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 3: In the Year 1817; Chapter 1: The Year 1817
  29. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 3: In the Year 1817; Chapter 2: A Double Quartette
  30. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 3: In the Year 1817; Chapter 3: Four and Four
  31. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 3: In the Year 1817; Chapter 4: Tholomyès Is So Merry That He Sings a Spanish Ditty
  32. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 3: In the Year 1817; Chapter 5: At Bombarda's
  33. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 3: In the Year 1817; Chapter 6: A Chapter in Which They Adore Each Other
  34. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 3: In the Year 1817; Chapter 7: The Wisdom of Tholomyès
  35. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 3: In the Year 1817; Chapter 8: The Death of a Horse
  36. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 3: In the Year 1817; Chapter 9: A Merry End to Mirth
  37. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 4: To Confide Is Sometimes to Deliver Into a Person's Power; Chapter 1: One Mother Meets Another Mother
  38. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 4: To Confide Is Sometimes to Deliver Into a Person's Power; Chapter 2: First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures
  39. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 4: To Confide Is Sometimes to Deliver Into a Person's Power; Chapter 3: The Lark
  40. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 5: The Descent; Chapter 1: The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets
  41. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 5: The Descent; Chapter 2: Madeleine
  42. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 5: The Descent; Chapter 3: Sums Deposited with Laffitte
  43. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 5: The Descent; Chapter 4: M. Madeleine in Mourning
  44. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 5: The Descent; Chapter 5: Vague Flashes on the Horizon
  45. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 5: The Descent; Chapter 6: Father Fauchelevent
  46. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 5: The Descent; Chapter 7: Fauchelevent Becomes a Gardener in Paris
  47. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 5: The Descent; Chapter 8: Madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs on Morality
  48. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 5: The Descent; Chapter 9: Madame Victurnien's Success
  49. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 5: The Descent; Chapter 10: Result of the Success
  50. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 5: The Descent; Chapter 11: Christus Nos Liberavit
  51. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 5: The Descent; Chapter 12: M. Bamatabois's Inactivity
  52. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 5: The Descent; Chapter 13: The Solution of Some Questions Connected with the Municipal Police
  53. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 6: Javert; Chapter 1: The Beginning of Repose
  54. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 6: Javert; Chapter 2: How Jean May Become Champ
  55. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 7: The Champmathieu Affair; Chapter 1: Sister Simplice
  56. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 7: The Champmathieu Affair; Chapter 2: The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire
  57. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 7: The Champmathieu Affair; Chapter 3: A Tempest in a Skull
  58. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 7: The Champmathieu Affair; Chapter 4: Forms Assumed by Suffering During Sleep
  59. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 7: The Champmathieu Affair; Chapter 5: Hindrances
  60. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 7: The Champmathieu Affair; Chapter 6: Sister Simplice Put to the Proof
  61. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 7: The Champmathieu Affair; Chapter 7: The Traveller on His Arrival Takes Precautions for Departure
  62. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 7: The Champmathieu Affair; Chapter 8: An Entrance by Favor
  63. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 7: The Champmathieu Affair; Chapter 9: A Place Where Convictions Are in Process of Formation
  64. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 7: The Champmathieu Affair; Chapter 10: The System of Denials
  65. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 7: The Champmathieu Affair; Chapter 11: Champmathieu More and More Astonished
  66. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 8: A Counter-blow; Chapter 1: In What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair
  67. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 8: A Counter-blow; Chapter 2: Fantine Happy
  68. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 8: A Counter-blow; Chapter 3: Javert Satisfied
  69. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 8: A Counter-blow; Chapter 4: Authority Reasserts Its Rights
  70. Volume 1: Fantine; Book 8: A Counter-blow; Chapter 5: A Suitable Tomb
Volume 2: Cosette
  1. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 1: What Is Met with on the Way from Nivelles
  2. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 2: Hougomont
  3. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 3: The Eighteenth of June, 1815
  4. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 4: A
  5. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 5: The Quid Obscurum of Battles
  6. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 6: Four O'clock in the Afternoon
  7. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 7: Napoleon in a Good Humor
  8. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 8: The Emperor Puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste
  9. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 9: The Unexpected
  10. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 10: The Plateau of Mont-saint-jean
  11. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 11: A Bad Guide to Napoleon; a Good Guide to Bülow
  12. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 12: The Guard
  13. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 13: The Catastrophe
  14. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 14: The Last Square
  15. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 15: Cambronne
  16. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 16: Quot Libras in Duce?
  17. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 17: Is Waterloo to Be Considered Good?
  18. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 18: A Recrudescence of Divine Right
  19. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 1: Waterloo; Chapter 19: The Battle-field at Night
  20. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 2: The Ship Orion; Chapter 1: Number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430
  21. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 2: The Ship Orion; Chapter 2: In Which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, Which Are of the Devil's Composition, Possibly
  22. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 2: The Ship Orion; Chapter 3: The Ankle-chain Must Have Undergone a Certain Preparatory Manipulation to Be Thus Broken with a Blow from a Hammer
  23. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 3: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman; Chapter 1: The Water Question at Montfermeil
  24. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 3: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman; Chapter 2: Two Complete Portraits
  25. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 3: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman; Chapter 3: Men Must Have Wine, and Horses Must Have Water
  26. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 3: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman; Chapter 4: Entrance on the Scene of a Doll
  27. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 3: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman; Chapter 5: The Little One All Alone
  28. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 3: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman; Chapter 6: Which Possibly Proves Boulatruelle's Intelligence
  29. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 3: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman; Chapter 7: Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark
  30. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 3: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman; Chapter 8: The Unpleasantness of Receiving Into One's House a Poor Man Who May Be a Rich Man
  31. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 3: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman; Chapter 9: Thénardier and His Manœuvres
  32. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 3: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman; Chapter 10: He Who Seeks to Better Himself May Render His Situation Worse
  33. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 3: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman; Chapter 11: Number 9,430 Reappears, and Cosette Wins It in the Lottery
  34. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 4: The Gorbeau Hovel; Chapter 1: Master Gorbeau
  35. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 4: The Gorbeau Hovel; Chapter 2: A Nest for Owl and a Warbler
  36. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 4: The Gorbeau Hovel; Chapter 3: Two Misfortunes Make One Piece of Good Fortune
  37. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 4: The Gorbeau Hovel; Chapter 4: The Remarks of the Principal Tenant
  38. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 4: The Gorbeau Hovel; Chapter 5: A Five-franc Piece Falls on the Ground and Produces a Tumult
  39. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 5: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack; Chapter 1: The Zigzags of Strategy
  40. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 5: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack; Chapter 2: It Is Lucky That the Pont D'austerlitz Bears Carriages
  41. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 5: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack; Chapter 3: To Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727
  42. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 5: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack; Chapter 4: The Gropings of Flight
  43. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 5: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack; Chapter 5: Which Would Be Impossible with Gas Lanterns
  44. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 5: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack; Chapter 6: The Beginning of an Enigma
  45. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 5: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack; Chapter 7: Continuation of the Enigma
  46. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 5: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack; Chapter 8: The Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious
  47. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 5: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack; Chapter 9: The Man with the Bell
  48. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 5: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack; Chapter 10: Which Explains How Javert Got on the Scent
  49. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 6: Le Petit-picpus; Chapter 1: Number 62 Rue Petit-picpus
  50. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 6: Le Petit-picpus; Chapter 2: The Obedience of Martin Verga
  51. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 6: Le Petit-picpus; Chapter 3: Austerities
  52. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 6: Le Petit-picpus; Chapter 4: Gayeties
  53. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 6: Le Petit-picpus; Chapter 5: Distractions
  54. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 6: Le Petit-picpus; Chapter 6: The Little Convent
  55. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 6: Le Petit-picpus; Chapter 7: Some Silhouettes of This Darkness
  56. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 6: Le Petit-picpus; Chapter 8: Post Corda Lapides
  57. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 6: Le Petit-picpus; Chapter 9: A Century Under a Guimpe
  58. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 6: Le Petit-picpus; Chapter 10: Origin of the Perpetual Adoration
  59. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 6: Le Petit-picpus; Chapter 11: End of the Petit-picpus
  60. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 7: Parenthesis; Chapter 1: The Convent as an Abstract Idea
  61. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 7: Parenthesis; Chapter 2: The Convent as an Historical Fact
  62. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 7: Parenthesis; Chapter 3: On What Conditions One Can Respect the Past
  63. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 7: Parenthesis; Chapter 4: The Convent from the Point of View of Principles
  64. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 7: Parenthesis; Chapter 5: Prayer
  65. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 7: Parenthesis; Chapter 6: The Absolute Goodness of Prayer
  66. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 7: Parenthesis; Chapter 7: Precautions to Be Observed in Blame
  67. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 7: Parenthesis; Chapter 8: Faith, Law
  68. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 8: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them; Chapter 1: Which Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent
  69. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 8: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them; Chapter 2: Fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty
  70. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 8: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them; Chapter 3: Mother Innocente
  71. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 8: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them; Chapter 4: In Which Jean Valjean Has Quite the Air of Having Read Austin Castillejo
  72. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 8: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them; Chapter 5: It Is Not Necessary to Be Drunk in Order to Be Immortal
  73. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 8: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them; Chapter 6: Between Four Planks
  74. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 8: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them; Chapter 7: In Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don't Lose the Card
  75. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 8: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them; Chapter 8: A Successful Interrogatory
  76. Volume 2: Cosette; Book 8: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them; Chapter 9: Cloistered
Volume 3: Marius
  1. Volume 3: Marius; Book 1: Paris Studied in Its Atom; Chapter 1: Parvulus
  2. Volume 3: Marius; Book 1: Paris Studied in Its Atom; Chapter 2: Some of His Particular Characteristics
  3. Volume 3: Marius; Book 1: Paris Studied in Its Atom; Chapter 3: He Is Agreeable
  4. Volume 3: Marius; Book 1: Paris Studied in Its Atom; Chapter 4: He May Be of Use
  5. Volume 3: Marius; Book 1: Paris Studied in Its Atom; Chapter 5: His Frontiers
  6. Volume 3: Marius; Book 1: Paris Studied in Its Atom; Chapter 6: A Bit of History
  7. Volume 3: Marius; Book 1: Paris Studied in Its Atom; Chapter 7: The Gamin Should Have His Place in the Classifications of India
  8. Volume 3: Marius; Book 1: Paris Studied in Its Atom; Chapter 8: In Which the Reader Will Find a Charming Saying of the Last King
  9. Volume 3: Marius; Book 1: Paris Studied in Its Atom; Chapter 9: The Old Soul of Gaul
  10. Volume 3: Marius; Book 1: Paris Studied in Its Atom; Chapter 10: Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo
  11. Volume 3: Marius; Book 1: Paris Studied in Its Atom; Chapter 11: To Scoff, to Reign
  12. Volume 3: Marius; Book 1: Paris Studied in Its Atom; Chapter 12: The Future Latent in the People
  13. Volume 3: Marius; Book 1: Paris Studied in Its Atom; Chapter 13: Little Gavroche
  14. Volume 3: Marius; Book 2: The Great Bourgeois; Chapter 1: Ninety Years and Thirty-two Teeth
  15. Volume 3: Marius; Book 2: The Great Bourgeois; Chapter 2: Like Master, Like House
  16. Volume 3: Marius; Book 2: The Great Bourgeois; Chapter 3: Luc-esprit
  17. Volume 3: Marius; Book 2: The Great Bourgeois; Chapter 4: A Centenarian Aspirant
  18. Volume 3: Marius; Book 2: The Great Bourgeois; Chapter 5: Basque and Nicolette
  19. Volume 3: Marius; Book 2: The Great Bourgeois; Chapter 6: In Which Magnon and Her Two Children Are Seen
  20. Volume 3: Marius; Book 2: The Great Bourgeois; Chapter 7: Rule: Receive No One Except in the Evening
  21. Volume 3: Marius; Book 2: The Great Bourgeois; Chapter 8: Two Do Not Make a Pair
  22. Volume 3: Marius; Book 3: The Grandfather and the Grandson; Chapter 1: An Ancient Salon
  23. Volume 3: Marius; Book 3: The Grandfather and the Grandson; Chapter 2: One of the Red Spectres of That Epoch
  24. Volume 3: Marius; Book 3: The Grandfather and the Grandson; Chapter 3: Requiescant
  25. Volume 3: Marius; Book 3: The Grandfather and the Grandson; Chapter 4: End of the Brigand
  26. Volume 3: Marius; Book 3: The Grandfather and the Grandson; Chapter 5: The Utility of Going to Mass, in Order to Become a Revolutionist
  27. Volume 3: Marius; Book 3: The Grandfather and the Grandson; Chapter 6: The Consequences of Having Met a Warden
  28. Volume 3: Marius; Book 3: The Grandfather and the Grandson; Chapter 7: Some Petticoat
  29. Volume 3: Marius; Book 3: The Grandfather and the Grandson; Chapter 8: Marble Against Granite
  30. Volume 3: Marius; Book 4: The Friends of the a B C; Chapter 1: A Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic
  31. Volume 3: Marius; Book 4: The Friends of the a B C; Chapter 2: Blondeau's Funeral Oration by Bossuet
  32. Volume 3: Marius; Book 4: The Friends of the a B C; Chapter 3: Marius' Astonishments
  33. Volume 3: Marius; Book 4: The Friends of the a B C; Chapter 4: The Back Room of the Café Musain
  34. Volume 3: Marius; Book 4: The Friends of the a B C; Chapter 5: Enlargement of Horizon
  35. Volume 3: Marius; Book 4: The Friends of the a B C; Chapter 6: Res Angusta
  36. Volume 3: Marius; Book 5: The Excellence of Misfortune; Chapter 1: Marius Indigent
  37. Volume 3: Marius; Book 5: The Excellence of Misfortune; Chapter 2: Marius Poor
  38. Volume 3: Marius; Book 5: The Excellence of Misfortune; Chapter 3: Marius Grown Up
  39. Volume 3: Marius; Book 5: The Excellence of Misfortune; Chapter 4: M. Mabeuf
  40. Volume 3: Marius; Book 5: The Excellence of Misfortune; Chapter 5: Poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery
  41. Volume 3: Marius; Book 5: The Excellence of Misfortune; Chapter 6: The Substitute
  42. Volume 3: Marius; Book 6: The Conjunction of Two Stars; Chapter 1: The Sobriquet: Mode of Formation of Family Names
  43. Volume 3: Marius; Book 6: The Conjunction of Two Stars; Chapter 2: Lux Facta Est
  44. Volume 3: Marius; Book 6: The Conjunction of Two Stars; Chapter 3: Effect of the Spring
  45. Volume 3: Marius; Book 6: The Conjunction of Two Stars; Chapter 4: Beginning of a Great Malady
  46. Volume 3: Marius; Book 6: The Conjunction of Two Stars; Chapter 5: Divers Claps of Thunder Fall on Ma'am Bougon
  47. Volume 3: Marius; Book 6: The Conjunction of Two Stars; Chapter 6: Taken Prisoner
  48. Volume 3: Marius; Book 6: The Conjunction of Two Stars; Chapter 7: Adventures of the Letter U Delivered Over to Conjectures
  49. Volume 3: Marius; Book 6: The Conjunction of Two Stars; Chapter 8: The Veterans Themselves Can Be Happy
  50. Volume 3: Marius; Book 6: The Conjunction of Two Stars; Chapter 9: Eclipse
  51. Volume 3: Marius; Book 7: Patron Minette; Chapter 1: Mines and Miners
  52. Volume 3: Marius; Book 7: Patron Minette; Chapter 2: The Lowest Depths
  53. Volume 3: Marius; Book 7: Patron Minette; Chapter 3: Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse
  54. Volume 3: Marius; Book 7: Patron Minette; Chapter 4: Composition of the Troupe
  55. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 1: Marius, While Seeking a Girl in a Bonnet, Encounters a Man in a Cap
  56. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 2: Treasure Trove
  57. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 3: Quadrifrons
  58. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 4: A Rose in Misery
  59. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 5: A Providential Peep-hole
  60. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 6: The Wild Man in His Lair
  61. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 7: Strategy and Tactics
  62. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 8: The Ray of Light in the Hovel
  63. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 9: Jondrette Comes Near Weeping
  64. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 10: Tariff of Licensed Cabs: Two Francs an Hour
  65. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 11: Offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness
  66. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 12: The Use Made of M. Leblanc's Five-franc Piece
  67. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 13: Solus Cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabuntur Orare Pater Noster
  68. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 14: In Which a Police Agent Bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer
  69. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 15: Jondrette Makes His Purchases
  70. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 16: In Which Will Be Found the Words to an English Air Which Was in Fashion in 1832
  71. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 17: The Use Made of Marius' Five-franc Piece
  72. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 18: Marius' Two Chairs Form a Vis-a-vis
  73. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 19: Occupying One's Self with Obscure Depths
  74. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 20: The Trap
  75. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 21: One Should Always Begin by Arresting the Victims
  76. Volume 3: Marius; Book 8: The Wicked Poor Man; Chapter 22: The Little One Who Was Crying in Volume Two
Volume 4: Saint-denis
  1. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 1: A Few Pages of History; Chapter 1: Well Cut
  2. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 1: A Few Pages of History; Chapter 2: Badly Sewed
  3. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 1: A Few Pages of History; Chapter 3: Louis Philippe
  4. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 1: A Few Pages of History; Chapter 4: Cracks Beneath the Foundation
  5. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 1: A Few Pages of History; Chapter 5: Facts Whence History Springs and Which History Ignores
  6. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 1: A Few Pages of History; Chapter 6: Enjolras and His Lieutenants
  7. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 2: éponine; Chapter 1: The Lark's Meadow
  8. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 2: éponine; Chapter 2: Embryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons
  9. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 2: éponine; Chapter 3: Apparition to Father Mabeuf
  10. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 2: éponine; Chapter 4: An Apparition to Marius
  11. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 3: The House in the Rue Plumet; Chapter 1: The House with a Secret
  12. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 3: The House in the Rue Plumet; Chapter 2: Jean Valjean as a National Guard
  13. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 3: The House in the Rue Plumet; Chapter 3: Foliis Ac Frondibus
  14. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 3: The House in the Rue Plumet; Chapter 4: Change of Gate
  15. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 3: The House in the Rue Plumet; Chapter 5: The Rose Perceives That It Is an Engine of War
  16. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 3: The House in the Rue Plumet; Chapter 6: The Battle Begun
  17. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 3: The House in the Rue Plumet; Chapter 7: To One Sadness Oppose a Sadness and a Half
  18. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 3: The House in the Rue Plumet; Chapter 8: The Chain-gang
  19. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 4: Succor from Below May Turn Out to Be Succor from on High; Chapter 1: A Wound Without, Healing Within
  20. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 4: Succor from Below May Turn Out to Be Succor from on High; Chapter 2: Mother Plutarque Finds No Difficulty in Explaining a Phenomenon
  21. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 5: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning; Chapter 1: Solitude and the Barracks Combined
  22. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 5: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning; Chapter 2: Cosette's Apprehensions
  23. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 5: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning; Chapter 3: Enriched with Commentaries by Toussaint
  24. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 5: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning; Chapter 4: A Heart Beneath a Stone
  25. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 5: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning; Chapter 5: Cosette After the Letter
  26. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 5: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning; Chapter 6: Old People Are Made to Go Out Opportunely
  27. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 6: Little Gavroche; Chapter 1: The Malicious Playfulness of the Wind
  28. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 6: Little Gavroche; Chapter 2: In Which Little Gavroche Extracts Profit from Napoleon the Great
  29. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 6: Little Gavroche; Chapter 3: The Vicissitudes of Flight
  30. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 7: Slang; Chapter 1: Origin
  31. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 7: Slang; Chapter 2: Roots
  32. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 7: Slang; Chapter 3: Slang Which Weeps and Slang Which Laughs
  33. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 7: Slang; Chapter 4: The Two Duties: To Watch and to Hope
  34. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 8: Enchantments and Desolations; Chapter 1: Full Light
  35. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 8: Enchantments and Desolations; Chapter 2: The Bewilderment of Perfect Happiness
  36. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 8: Enchantments and Desolations; Chapter 3: The Beginning of Shadow
  37. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 8: Enchantments and Desolations; Chapter 4: A Cab Runs in English and Barks in Slang
  38. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 8: Enchantments and Desolations; Chapter 5: Things of the Night
  39. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 8: Enchantments and Desolations; Chapter 6: Marius Becomes Practical Once More to the Extent of Giving Cosette His Address
  40. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 8: Enchantments and Desolations; Chapter 7: The Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each Other
  41. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 9: Whither Are They Going?; Chapter 1: Jean Valjean
  42. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 9: Whither Are They Going?; Chapter 2: Marius
  43. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 9: Whither Are They Going?; Chapter 3: M. Mabeuf
  44. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 10: The 5th of June, 1832; Chapter 1: The Surface of the Question
  45. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 10: The 5th of June, 1832; Chapter 2: The Root of the Matter
  46. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 10: The 5th of June, 1832; Chapter 3: A Burial; an Occasion to Be Born Again
  47. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 10: The 5th of June, 1832; Chapter 4: The Ebullitions of Former Days
  48. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 10: The 5th of June, 1832; Chapter 5: Originality of Paris
  49. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 11: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane; Chapter 1: Some Explanations with Regard to the Origin of Gavroche's Poetry. the Influence of an Academician on This Poetry
  50. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 11: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane; Chapter 2: Gavroche on the March
  51. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 11: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane; Chapter 3: Just Indignation of a Hair-dresser
  52. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 11: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane; Chapter 4: The Child Is Amazed at the Old Man
  53. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 11: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane; Chapter 5: The Old Man
  54. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 11: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane; Chapter 6: Recruits
  55. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 12: Corinthe; Chapter 1: History of Corinthe from Its Foundation
  56. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 12: Corinthe; Chapter 2: Preliminary Gayeties
  57. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 12: Corinthe; Chapter 3: Night Begins to Descend Upon Grantaire
  58. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 12: Corinthe; Chapter 4: An Attempt to Console the Widow Hucheloup
  59. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 12: Corinthe; Chapter 5: Preparations
  60. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 12: Corinthe; Chapter 6: Waiting
  61. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 12: Corinthe; Chapter 7: The Man Recruited in the Rue Des Billettes
  62. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book 12: Corinthe; Chapter 8: Many Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain Le Cabuc Whose Name May Not Have Been Le Cabuc
  63. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book Thirteenth: Marius Enters the Shadow; Chapter 1: From the Rue Plumet to the Quartier Saint-denis
  64. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book Thirteenth: Marius Enters the Shadow; Chapter 2: An Owl's View of Paris
  65. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book Thirteenth: Marius Enters the Shadow; Chapter 3: The Extreme Edge
  66. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book Fourteenth: The Grandeurs of Despair; Chapter 1: The Flag: Act First
  67. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book Fourteenth: The Grandeurs of Despair; Chapter 2: The Flag: Act Second
  68. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book Fourteenth: The Grandeurs of Despair; Chapter 3: Gavroche Would Have Done Better to Accept Enjolras' Carbine
  69. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book Fourteenth: The Grandeurs of Despair; Chapter 4: The Barrel of Powder
  70. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book Fourteenth: The Grandeurs of Despair; Chapter 5: End of the Verses of Jean Prouvaire
  71. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book Fourteenth: The Grandeurs of Despair; Chapter 6: The Agony of Death After the Agony of Life
  72. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book Fourteenth: The Grandeurs of Despair; Chapter 7: Gavroche as a Profound Calculator of Distances
  73. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book Fifteenth: The Rue De L'homme Armé; Chapter 1: A Drinker Is a Babbler
  74. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book Fifteenth: The Rue De L'homme Armé; Chapter 2: The Street Urchin an Enemy of Light
  75. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book Fifteenth: The Rue De L'homme Armé; Chapter 3: While Cosette and Toussaint Are Asleep
  76. Volume 4: Saint-denis; Book Fifteenth: The Rue De L'homme Armé; Chapter 4: Gavroche's Excess of Zeal
Volume 5: Jean Valjean
  1. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 1: The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla of the Faubourg Du Temple
  2. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 2: What Is to Be Done in the Abyss If One Does Not Converse
  3. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 3: Light and Shadow
  4. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 4: Minus Five, Plus One
  5. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 5: The Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a Barricade
  6. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 6: Marius Haggard, Javert Laconic
  7. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 7: The Situation Becomes Aggravated
  8. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 8: The Artillery-men Compel People to Take Them Seriously
  9. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 9: Employment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That Infallible Marksmanship Which Influenced the Condemnation of 1796
  10. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 10: Dawn
  11. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 11: The Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One
  12. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 12: Disorder a Partisan of Order
  13. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 13: Passing Gleams
  14. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 14: Wherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras' Mistress
  15. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 15: Gavroche Outside
  16. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 16: How from a Brother One Becomes a Father
  17. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 17: Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat
  18. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 18: The Vulture Become Prey
  19. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 19: Jean Valjean Takes His Revenge
  20. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 20: The Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the Wrong
  21. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 21: The Heroes
  22. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 22: Foot to Foot
  23. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 23: Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk
  24. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 1: The War Between Four Walls; Chapter 24: Prisoner
  25. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 2: The Intestine of the Leviathan; Chapter 1: The Land Impoverished by the Sea
  26. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 2: The Intestine of the Leviathan; Chapter 2: Ancient History of the Sewer
  27. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 2: The Intestine of the Leviathan; Chapter 3: Bruneseau
  28. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 2: The Intestine of the Leviathan; Chapter 4
  29. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 2: The Intestine of the Leviathan; Chapter 5: Present Progress
  30. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 2: The Intestine of the Leviathan; Chapter 6: Future Progress
  31. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 3: Mud But the Soul; Chapter 1: The Sewer and Its Surprises
  32. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 3: Mud But the Soul; Chapter 2: Explanation
  33. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 3: Mud But the Soul; Chapter 3: The "spun" Man
  34. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 3: Mud But the Soul; Chapter 4: He Also Bears His Cross
  35. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 3: Mud But the Soul; Chapter 5: In the Case of Sand as in That of Woman, There Is a Fineness Which Is Treacherous
  36. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 3: Mud But the Soul; Chapter 6: The Fontis
  37. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 3: Mud But the Soul; Chapter 7: One Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is Disembarking
  38. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 3: Mud But the Soul; Chapter 8: The Torn Coat-tail
  39. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 3: Mud But the Soul; Chapter 9: Marius Produces on Some One Who Is a Judge of the Matter, the Effect of Being Dead
  40. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 3: Mud But the Soul; Chapter 10: Return of the Son Who Was Prodigal of His Life
  41. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 3: Mud But the Soul; Chapter 11: Concussion in the Absolute
  42. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 3: Mud But the Soul; Chapter 12: The Grandfather
  43. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 4: Javert Derailed; Chapter 1
  44. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 5: Grandson and Grandfather; Chapter 1: In Which the Tree with the Zinc Plaster Appears Again
  45. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 5: Grandson and Grandfather; Chapter 2: Marius, Emerging from Civil War, Makes Ready for Domestic War
  46. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 5: Grandson and Grandfather; Chapter 3: Marius Attacked
  47. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 5: Grandson and Grandfather; Chapter 4: Mademoiselle Gillenormand Ends by No Longer Thinking It a Bad Thing That M. Fauchelevent Should Have Entered with Something Under His Arm
  48. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 5: Grandson and Grandfather; Chapter 5: Deposit Your Money in a Forest Rather Than with a Notary
  49. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 5: Grandson and Grandfather; Chapter 6: The Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own Fashion, to Render Cosette Happy
  50. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 5: Grandson and Grandfather; Chapter 7: The Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happiness
  51. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 5: Grandson and Grandfather; Chapter 8: Two Men Impossible to Find
  52. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 6: The Sleepless Night; Chapter 1: The 16th of February, 1833
  53. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 6: The Sleepless Night; Chapter 2: Jean Valjean Still Wears His Arm in a Sling
  54. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 6: The Sleepless Night; Chapter 3: The Inseparable
  55. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 6: The Sleepless Night; Chapter 4: The Immortal Liver 68
  56. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 7: The Last Draught from the Cup; Chapter 1: The Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven
  57. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 7: The Last Draught from the Cup; Chapter 2: The Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Contain
  58. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 8: Fading Away of the Twilight; Chapter 1: The Lower Chamber
  59. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 8: Fading Away of the Twilight; Chapter 2: Another Step Backwards
  60. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 8: Fading Away of the Twilight; Chapter 3: They Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumet
  61. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 8: Fading Away of the Twilight; Chapter 4: Attraction and Extinction
  62. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 9: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn; Chapter 1: Pity for the Unhappy, But Indulgence for the Happy
  63. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 9: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn; Chapter 2: Last Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil
  64. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 9: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn; Chapter 3: A Pen Is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent's Cart
  65. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 9: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn; Chapter 4: A Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whitening
  66. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 9: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn; Chapter 5: A Night Behind Which There Is Day
  67. Volume 5: Jean Valjean; Book 9: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn; Chapter 6: The Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces
Preface and supplementary material
  1. Letter to M. Daelli
  2. Edition footnotes

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