Les Miserables

BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 CHAPTER IV--A CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE      DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY      MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN      WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES CHAPTER V--PRAYER CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE THE CARD CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED VOLUME III--MARIUS. BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM CHAPTER I--PARVULUS CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH      WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY CHAPTER I--WELL CUT CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG CHAPTER I--ORIGIN CHAPTER II--ROOTS CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING      COSETTE HIS ADDRESS CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN CHAPTER II--MARIUS CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS CHAPTER VI--WAITING CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE      MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 CHAPTER X--DAWN CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS      WHICH IS TREACHEROUS CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER