Les Misérables

1. Preface

Volume I: Fantine, Book First: A Just Man

1. Chapter IM. Myriel
2. Chapter IIM. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome
3. Chapter IIIA Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop
4. Chapter IVWorks Corresponding to Words
5. Chapter VMonseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long
6. Chapter VIWho Guarded His House for Him
7. Chapter VIICravatte
8. Chapter VIIIPhilosophy After Drinking
9. Chapter IXThe Brother as Depicted by the Sister
10. Chapter XThe Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light
11. Chapter XIA Restriction
12. Chapter XIIThe Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome
13. Chapter XIIIWhat He Believed
14. Chapter XIVWhat He Thought

Volume I: Fantine, Book Second: The Fall

1. Chapter IThe Evening of a Day of Walking
2. Chapter IIPrudence Counselled to Wisdom.
3. Chapter IIIThe Heroism of Passive Obedience.
4. Chapter IVDetails Concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier.
5. Chapter VTranquillity
6. Chapter VIJean Valjean
7. Chapter VIIThe Interior of Despair
8. Chapter VIIIBillows and Shadows
9. Chapter IXNew Troubles
10. Chapter XThe Man Aroused
11. Chapter XIWhat He Does
12. Chapter XIIThe Bishop Works
13. Chapter XIIILittle Gervais

Volume I: Fantine, Book Third: In the Year 1817

1. Chapter IThe Year 1817
2. Chapter IIA Double Quartette
3. Chapter IIIFour and Four
4. Chapter IVTholomyès Is So Merry That He Sings a Spanish Ditty
5. Chapter VAt Bombarda’s
6. Chapter VIA Chapter in Which They Adore Each Other
7. Chapter VIIThe Wisdom of Tholomyès
8. Chapter VIIIThe Death of a Horse
9. Chapter IXA Merry End to Mirth

Volume I: Fantine, Book Fourth: To Confide Is Sometimes to Deliver into a Person’s Power

1. Chapter IOne Mother Meets Another Mother
2. Chapter IIFirst Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures
3. Chapter IIIThe Lark

Volume I: Fantine, Book Fifth: The Descent

1. Chapter IThe History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets
2. Chapter IIMadeleine
3. Chapter IIISums Deposited with Laffitte
4. Chapter IVM. Madeleine in Mourning
5. Chapter VVague Flashes on the Horizon
6. Chapter VIFather Fauchelevent
7. Chapter VIIFauchelevent Becomes a Gardener in Paris
8. Chapter VIIIMadame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs on Morality
9. Chapter IXMadame Victurnien’s Success
10. Chapter XResult of the Success
11. Chapter XIChristus Nos Liberavit
12. Chapter XIIM. Bamatabois’s Inactivity
13. Chapter XIIIThe Solution of Some Questions Connected with the Municipal Police

Volume I: Fantine, Book Sixth: Javert

1. Chapter IThe Beginning of Repose
2. Chapter IIHow Jean May Become Champ

Volume I: Fantine, Book Seventh: The Champmathieu Affair

1. Chapter ISister Simplice
2. Chapter IIThe Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire
3. Chapter IIIA Tempest in a Skull
4. Chapter IVForms Assumed by Suffering During Sleep
5. Chapter VHindrances
6. Chapter VISister Simplice Put to the Proof
7. Chapter VIIThe Traveller on His Arrival Takes Precautions for Departure
8. Chapter VIIIAn Entrance by Favor
9. Chapter IXA Place Where Convictions Are in Process of Formation
10. Chapter XThe System of Denials
11. Chapter XIChampmathieu More and More Astonished

Volume I: Fantine, Book Eighth: A Counter-Blow

1. Chapter IIn What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair
2. Chapter IIFantine Happy
3. Chapter IIIJavert Satisfied
4. Chapter IVAuthority Reasserts Its Rights
5. Chapter VA Suitable Tomb

Volume II: Cosette, Book First: Waterloo

1. Chapter IWhat Is Met with on the Way from Nivelles
2. Chapter IIHougomont
3. Chapter IIIThe Eighteenth of June, 1815
4. Chapter IVA
5. Chapter VThe Quid Obscurum of Battles
6. Chapter VIFour O’Clock in the Afternoon
7. Chapter VIINapoleon in a Good Humor
8. Chapter VIIIThe Emperor Puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste
9. Chapter IXThe Unexpected
10. Chapter XThe Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean
11. Chapter XIA Bad Guide to Napoleon; a Good Guide to Bülow
12. Chapter XIIThe Guard
13. Chapter XIIIThe Catastrophe
14. Chapter XIVThe Last Square
15. Chapter XVCambronne
16. Chapter XVIQuot Libras in Duce?
17. Chapter XVIIIs Waterloo to Be Considered Good?
18. Chapter XVIIIA Recrudescence of Divine Right
19. Chapter XIXThe Battle-Field at Night

Volume II: Cosette, Book Second: The Ship Orion

1. Chapter INumber 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430
2. Chapter IIIn Which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, Which Are of the Devil’s Composition, Possibly
3. Chapter IIIThe Ankle-Chain Must Have Undergone a Certain Preparatory Manipulation to Be Thus Broken with a Blow from a Hammer

Volume II: Cosette, Book Third: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman

1. Chapter IThe Water Question at Montfermeil
2. Chapter IITwo Complete Portraits
3. Chapter IIIMen Must Have Wine, and Horses Must Have Water
4. Chapter IVEntrance on the Scene of a Doll
5. Chapter VThe Little One All Alone
6. Chapter VIWhich Possibly Proves Boulatruelle’s Intelligence
7. Chapter VIICosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark
8. Chapter VIIIThe Unpleasantness of Receiving into One’s House a Poor Man Who May Be a Rich Man
9. Chapter IXThénardier and His Manœuvres
10. Chapter XHe Who Seeks to Better Himself May Render His Situation Worse
11. Chapter XINumber 9,430 Reappears, and Cosette Wins It in the Lottery

Volume II: Cosette, Book Fourth: The Gorbeau Hovel

1. Chapter IMaster Gorbeau
2. Chapter IIA Nest for Owl and a Warbler
3. Chapter IIITwo Misfortunes Make One Piece of Good Fortune
4. Chapter IVThe Remarks of the Principal Tenant
5. Chapter VA Five-Franc Piece Falls on the Ground and Produces a Tumult

Volume II: Cosette, Book Fifth: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack

1. Chapter IThe Zigzags of Strategy
2. Chapter IIIt Is Lucky That the Pont D’Austerlitz Bears Carriages
3. Chapter IIITo Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727
4. Chapter IVThe Gropings of Flight
5. Chapter VWhich Would Be Impossible with Gas Lanterns
6. Chapter VIThe Beginning of an Enigma
7. Chapter VIIContinuation of the Enigma
8. Chapter VIIIThe Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious
9. Chapter IXThe Man with the Bell
10. Chapter XWhich Explains How Javert Got on the Scent

Volume II: Cosette, Book Sixth: Le Petit-Picpus

1. Chapter INumber 62 Rue Petit-Picpus
2. Chapter IIThe Obedience of Martin Verga
3. Chapter IIIAusterities
4. Chapter IVGayeties
5. Chapter VDistractions
6. Chapter VIThe Little Convent
7. Chapter VIISome Silhouettes of This Darkness
8. Chapter VIIIPost Corda Lapides
9. Chapter IXA Century Under a Guimpe
10. Chapter XOrigin of the Perpetual Adoration
11. Chapter XIEnd of the Petit-Picpus

Volume II: Cosette, Book Seventh: Parenthesis

1. Chapter IThe Convent as an Abstract Idea
2. Chapter IIThe Convent as an Historical Fact
3. Chapter IIIOn What Conditions One Can Respect the Past
4. Chapter IVThe Convent from the Point of View of Principles
5. Chapter VPrayer
6. Chapter VIThe Absolute Goodness of Prayer
7. Chapter VIIPrecautions to Be Observed in Blame
8. Chapter VIIIFaith, Law

Volume II: Cosette, Book Eighth: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them

1. Chapter IWhich Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent
2. Chapter IIFauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty
3. Chapter IIIMother Innocente
4. Chapter IVIn Which Jean Valjean Has Quite the Air of Having Read Austin Castillejo
5. Chapter VIt Is Not Necessary to Be Drunk in Order to Be Immortal
6. Chapter VIBetween Four Planks
7. Chapter VIIIn Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don’t Lose the Card
8. Chapter VIIIA Successful Interrogatory
9. Chapter IXCloistered

Volume III: Marius, Book First: Paris Studied in Its Atom

1. Chapter IParvulus
2. Chapter IISome of His Particular Characteristics
3. Chapter IIIHe Is Agreeable
4. Chapter IVHe May Be of Use
5. Chapter VHis Frontiers
6. Chapter VIA Bit of History
7. Chapter VIIThe Gamin Should Have His Place in the Classifications of India
8. Chapter VIIIIn Which the Reader Will Find a Charming Saying of the Last King
9. Chapter IXThe Old Soul of Gaul
10. Chapter XEcce Paris, Ecce Homo
11. Chapter XITo Scoff, to Reign
12. Chapter XIIThe Future Latent in the People
13. Chapter XIIILittle Gavroche

Volume III: Marius, Book Second: The Great Bourgeois

1. Chapter INinety Years and Thirty-Two Teeth
2. Chapter IILike Master, Like House
3. Chapter IIILuc-Esprit
4. Chapter IVA Centenarian Aspirant
5. Chapter VBasque and Nicolette
6. Chapter VIIn Which Magnon and Her Two Children Are Seen
7. Chapter VIIRule: Receive No One Except in the Evening
8. Chapter VIIITwo Do Not Make a Pair

Volume III: Marius, Book Third: The Grandfather and the Grandson

1. Chapter IAn Ancient Salon
2. Chapter IIOne of the Red Spectres of That Epoch
3. Chapter IIIRequiescant
4. Chapter IVEnd of the Brigand
5. Chapter VThe Utility of Going to Mass, in Order to Become a Revolutionist
6. Chapter VIThe Consequences of Having Met a Warden
7. Chapter VIISome Petticoat
8. Chapter VIIIMarble Against Granite

Volume III: Marius, Book Fourth: The Friends of the A B C

1. Chapter IA Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic
2. Chapter IIBlondeau’s Funeral Oration by Bossuet
3. Chapter IIIMarius’ Astonishments
4. Chapter IVThe Back Room of the Café Musain
5. Chapter VEnlargement of Horizon
6. Chapter VIRes Angusta

Volume III: Marius, Book Fifth: The Excellence of Misfortune

1. Chapter IMarius Indigent
2. Chapter IIMarius Poor
3. Chapter IIIMarius Grown Up
4. Chapter IVM. Mabeuf
5. Chapter VPoverty a Good Neighbor for Misery
6. Chapter VIThe Substitute

Volume III: Marius, Book Sixth: The Conjunction of Two Stars

1. Chapter IThe Sobriquet: Mode of Formation of Family Names
2. Chapter IILux Facta Est
3. Chapter IIIEffect of the Spring
4. Chapter IVBeginning of a Great Malady
5. Chapter VDivers Claps of Thunder Fall on Ma’Am Bougon
6. Chapter VITaken Prisoner
7. Chapter VIIAdventures of the Letter U Delivered Over to Conjectures
8. Chapter VIIIThe Veterans Themselves Can Be Happy
9. Chapter IXEclipse

Volume III: Marius, Book Seventh: Patron Minette

1. Chapter IMines and Miners
2. Chapter IIThe Lowest Depths
3. Chapter IIIBabet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse
4. Chapter IVComposition of the Troupe

Volume III: Marius, Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man

1. Chapter IMarius, While Seeking a Girl in a Bonnet, Encounters a Man in a Cap
2. Chapter IITreasure Trove
3. Chapter IIIQuadrifrons
4. Chapter IVA Rose in Misery
5. Chapter VA Providential Peep-Hole
6. Chapter VIThe Wild Man in His Lair
7. Chapter VIIStrategy and Tactics
8. Chapter VIIIThe Ray of Light in the Hovel
9. Chapter IXJondrette Comes Near Weeping
10. Chapter XTariff of Licensed Cabs: Two Francs an Hour
11. Chapter XIOffers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness
12. Chapter XIIThe Use Made of M. Leblanc’s Five-Franc Piece
13. Chapter XIIISolus Cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabuntur Orare Pater Noster
14. Chapter XIVIn Which a Police Agent Bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer
15. Chapter XVJondrette Makes His Purchases
16. Chapter XVIIn Which Will Be Found the Words to an English Air Which Was in Fashion in 1832
17. Chapter XVIIThe Use Made of Marius’ Five-Franc Piece
18. Chapter XVIIIMarius’ Two Chairs Form a Vis-a-Vis
19. Chapter XIXOccupying One’s Self with Obscure Depths
20. Chapter XXThe Trap
21. Chapter XXIOne Should Always Begin by Arresting the Victims
22. Chapter XXIIThe Little One Who Was Crying in Volume Two

Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book First: A Few Pages of History

1. Chapter IWell Cut
2. Chapter IIBadly Sewed
3. Chapter IIILouis Philippe
4. Chapter IVCracks Beneath the Foundation
5. Chapter VFacts Whence History Springs and Which History Ignores
6. Chapter VIEnjolras and His Lieutenants

Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Second: Éponine

1. Chapter IThe Lark’s Meadow
2. Chapter IIEmbryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons
3. Chapter IIIApparition to Father Mabeuf
4. Chapter IVAn Apparition to Marius

Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Third: The House in the Rue Plumet

1. Chapter IThe House with a Secret
2. Chapter IIJean Valjean as a National Guard
3. Chapter IIIFoliis Ac Frondibus
4. Chapter IVChange of Gate
5. Chapter VThe Rose Perceives That It Is an Engine of War
6. Chapter VIThe Battle Begun
7. Chapter VIITo One Sadness Oppose a Sadness and a Half
8. Chapter VIIIThe Chain-Gang

Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Fourth: Succor from Below May Turn Out to Be Succor from on High

1. Chapter IA Wound Without, Healing Within
2. Chapter IIMother Plutarque Finds No Difficulty in Explaining a Phenomenon

Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Fifth: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning

1. Chapter ISolitude and the Barracks Combined
2. Chapter IICosette’s Apprehensions
3. Chapter IIIEnriched with Commentaries by Toussaint
4. Chapter IVA Heart Beneath a Stone
5. Chapter VCosette After the Letter
6. Chapter VIOld People Are Made to Go Out Opportunely

Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Sixth: Little Gavroche

1. Chapter IThe Malicious Playfulness of the Wind
2. Chapter IIIn Which Little Gavroche Extracts Profit from Napoleon the Great
3. Chapter IIIThe Vicissitudes of Flight

Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Seventh: Slang

1. Chapter IOrigin
2. Chapter IIRoots
3. Chapter IIISlang Which Weeps and Slang Which Laughs
4. Chapter IVThe Two Duties: To Watch and to Hope

Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Eighth: Enchantments and Desolations

1. Chapter IFull Light
2. Chapter IIThe Bewilderment of Perfect Happiness
3. Chapter IIIThe Beginning of Shadow
4. Chapter IVA Cab Runs in English and Barks in Slang
5. Chapter VThings of the Night
6. Chapter VIMarius Becomes Practical Once More to the Extent of Giving Cosette His Address
7. Chapter VIIThe Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each Other

Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Ninth: Whither Are They Going?

1. Chapter IJean Valjean
2. Chapter IIMarius
3. Chapter IIIM. Mabeuf

Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Tenth: The 5th of June, 1832

1. Chapter IThe Surface of the Question
2. Chapter IIThe Root of the Matter
3. Chapter IIIA Burial; an Occasion to Be Born Again
4. Chapter IVThe Ebullitions of Former Days
5. Chapter VOriginality of Paris

Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Eleventh: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane

1. Chapter ISome Explanations with Regard to the Origin of Gavroche’s Poetry. The Influence of an Academician on This Poetry
2. Chapter IIGavroche on the March
3. Chapter IIIJust Indignation of a Hair-Dresser
4. Chapter IVThe Child Is Amazed at the Old Man
5. Chapter VThe Old Man
6. Chapter VIRecruits

Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Twelfth: Corinthe

1. Chapter IHistory of Corinthe from Its Foundation
2. Chapter IIPreliminary Gayeties
3. Chapter IIINight Begins to Descend upon Grantaire
4. Chapter IVAn Attempt to Console the Widow Hucheloup
5. Chapter VPreparations
6. Chapter VIWaiting
7. Chapter VIIThe Man Recruited in the Rue des Billettes
8. Chapter VIIIMany Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain Le Cabuc Whose Name May Not Have Been Le Cabuc

Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Thirteenth: Marius Enters the Shadow

1. Chapter IFrom the Rue Plumet to the Quartier Saint-Denis
2. Chapter IIAn Owl’s View of Paris
3. Chapter IIIThe Extreme Edge

Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Fourteenth: The Grandeurs of Despair

1. Chapter IThe Flag: Act First
2. Chapter IIThe Flag: Act Second
3. Chapter IIIGavroche Would Have Done Better to Accept Enjolras’ Carbine
4. Chapter IVThe Barrel of Powder
5. Chapter VEnd of the Verses of Jean Prouvaire
6. Chapter VIThe Agony of Death After the Agony of Life
7. Chapter VIIGavroche as a Profound Calculator of Distances

Volume IV: Saint-Denis, Book Fifteenth: The Rue de l’Homme Armé

1. Chapter IA Drinker Is a Babbler
2. Chapter IIThe Street Urchin an Enemy of Light
3. Chapter IIIWhile Cosette and Toussaint Are Asleep
4. Chapter IVGavroche’s Excess of Zeal

Volume V: Jean Valjean, Book First: The War Between Four Walls

1. Chapter IThe Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla of the Faubourg du Temple
2. Chapter IIWhat Is to Be Done in the Abyss If One Does Not Converse
3. Chapter IIILight and Shadow
4. Chapter IVMinus Five, Plus One
5. Chapter VThe Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a Barricade
6. Chapter VIMarius Haggard, Javert Laconic
7. Chapter VIIThe Situation Becomes Aggravated
8. Chapter VIIIThe Artillery-Men Compel People to Take Them Seriously
9. Chapter IXEmployment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That Infallible Marksmanship Which Influenced the Condemnation of 1796
10. Chapter XDawn
11. Chapter XIThe Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One
12. Chapter XIIDisorder a Partisan of Order
13. Chapter XIIIPassing Gleams
14. Chapter XIVWherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras’ Mistress
15. Chapter XVGavroche Outside
16. Chapter XVIHow from a Brother One Becomes a Father
17. Chapter XVIIMortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat
18. Chapter XVIIIThe Vulture Become Prey
19. Chapter XIXJean Valjean Takes His Revenge
20. Chapter XXThe Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the Wrong
21. Chapter XXIThe Heroes
22. Chapter XXIIFoot to Foot
23. Chapter XXIIIOrestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk
24. Chapter XXIVPrisoner

Volume V: Jean Valjean, Book Second: The Intestine of the Leviathan

1. Chapter IThe Land Impoverished by the Sea
2. Chapter IIAncient History of the Sewer
3. Chapter IIIBruneseau
4. Chapter IV
5. Chapter VPresent Progress
6. Chapter VIFuture Progress

Volume V: Jean Valjean, Book Third: Mud but the Soul

1. Chapter IThe Sewer and Its Surprises
2. Chapter IIExplanation
3. Chapter IIIThe “Spun” Man
4. Chapter IVHe Also Bears His Cross
5. Chapter VIn the Case of Sand as in That of Woman, There Is a Fineness Which Is Treacherous
6. Chapter VIThe Fontis
7. Chapter VIIOne Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is Disembarking
8. Chapter VIIIThe Torn Coat-Tail
9. Chapter IXMarius Produces on Some One Who Is a Judge of the Matter, the Effect of Being Dead
10. Chapter XReturn of the Son Who Was Prodigal of His Life
11. Chapter XIConcussion in the Absolute
12. Chapter XIIThe Grandfather

Volume V: Jean Valjean, Book Fourth: Javert Derailed

1. Chapter I

Volume V: Jean Valjean, Book Fifth: Grandson and Grandfather

1. Chapter IIn Which the Tree with the Zinc Plaster Appears Again
2. Chapter IIMarius, Emerging from Civil War, Makes Ready for Domestic War
3. Chapter IIIMarius Attacked
4. Chapter IVMademoiselle Gillenormand Ends by No Longer Thinking It a Bad Thing That M. Fauchelevent Should Have Entered with Something Under His Arm
5. Chapter VDeposit Your Money in a Forest Rather than with a Notary
6. Chapter VIThe Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own Fashion, to Render Cosette Happy
7. Chapter VIIThe Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happiness
8. Chapter VIIITwo Men Impossible to Find

Volume V: Jean Valjean, Book Sixth: The Sleepless Night

1. Chapter IThe 16th of February, 1833
2. Chapter IIJean Valjean Still Wears His Arm in a Sling
3. Chapter IIIThe Inseparable
4. Chapter IVThe Immortal Liver

Volume V: Jean Valjean, Book Seventh: The Last Draught from the Cup

1. Chapter IThe Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven
2. Chapter IIThe Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Contain

Volume V: Jean Valjean, Book Eighth: Fading Away of the Twilight

1. Chapter IThe Lower Chamber
2. Chapter IIAnother Step Backwards
3. Chapter IIIThey Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumet
4. Chapter IVAttraction and Extinction

Volume V: Jean Valjean, Book Ninth: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn

1. Chapter IPity for the Unhappy, but Indulgence for the Happy
2. Chapter IILast Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil
3. Chapter IIIA Pen Is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent’s Cart
4. Chapter IVA Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whitening
5. Chapter VA Night Behind Which There Is Day
6. Chapter VIThe Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces