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Les Misérables

By Victor Hugo (translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood)

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Cover: Liberty Leading the People (1830), oil on canvas by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1863)

Les Misérables is a French epic historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published on 31 March 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. Les Misérables has been popularized through numerous adaptations for film, television, and the stage, including a musical.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Myriel
  2. 2: Myriel Becomes M. Welcome
  3. 3: Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop
  4. 4: Corresponding to Words
  5. 5: Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long
  6. 6: Guarded His House for Him
  7. 7: Chapter 7
  8. 8: After Drinking
  9. 9: Brother As Depicted by the Sister
  10. 10: Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light
  11. 11: Restriction
  12. 12: Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome
  13. 13: He Believed
  14. 14: He Thought
  15. 15: Evening of a Day of Walking
  16. 16: Counselled to Wisdom
  17. 17: Heroism of Passive Obedience
  18. 18: Concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier
  19. 19: Chapter 19
  20. 20: Valjean
  21. 21: Interior of Despair
  22. 22: And Shadows
  23. 23: Troubles
  24. 24: Man Aroused
  25. 25: He Does
  26. 26: Bishop Works
  27. 27: Gervais
  28. 28: Year 1817
  29. 29: Double Quartette
  30. 30: And Four
  31. 31: Is So Merry That He Sings a Spanish Ditty
  32. 32: Bombarda’s
  33. 33: Chapter in Which They Adore Each Other
  34. 34: Wisdom of Tholomyès
  35. 35: Death of a Horse
  36. 36: Merry End to Mirth
  37. 37: Mother Meets Another Mother
  38. 38: Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures
  39. 39: Lark
  40. 40: History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets
  41. 41: Chapter 41
  42. 42: Deposited with Laffitte
  43. 43: Madeleine in Mourning
  44. 44: Flashes on the Horizon
  45. 45: Fauchelevent
  46. 46: Becomes a Gardener in Paris
  47. 47: Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs on Morality
  48. 48: Victurnien’s Success
  49. 49: Of the Success
  50. 50: Nos Liberavit
  51. 51: Bamatabois’s Inactivity
  52. 52: Solution of Some Questions Connected with the
  53. 53: Beginning of Repose
  54. 54: Jean May Become Champ
  55. 55: Simplice
  56. 56: Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire
  57. 57: Tempest in a Skull
  58. 58: Assumed by Suffering During Sleep
  59. 59: Chapter 59
  60. 60: Simplice Put to the Proof
  61. 61: Traveller on His Arrival Takes Precautions for
  62. 62: Entrance by Favor
  63. 63: Place Where Convictions Are in Process of Formation
  64. 64: System of Denials
  65. 65: More and More Astonished
  66. 66: What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair
  67. 67: Happy
  68. 68: Satisfied
  69. 69: Reasserts Its Rights
  70. 70: Suitable Tomb
  71. 71: Is Met with on the Way from Nivelles
  72. 72: Chapter 72
  73. 73: Eighteenth of June, 1815
  74. 74: Chapter 74
  75. 75: Quid Obscurum of Battles
  76. 76: O’Clock in the Afternoon
  77. 77: In a Good Humor
  78. 78: Emperor Puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste
  79. 79: Unexpected
  80. 80: Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean
  81. 81: Bad Guide to Napoleon; a Good Guide to Bülow
  82. 82: Guard
  83. 83: Catastrophe
  84. 84: The Last Chapter
  85. 85: Chapter 85
  86. 86: Libras in Duce?
  87. 87: Waterloo to Be Considered Good?
  88. 88: Recrudescence of Divine Right
  89. 89: Battle-Field at Night
  90. 90: ,601 Becomes Number 9,430
  91. 91: Which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, Which Are of the
  92. 92: Ankle-Chain Must Have Undergone a Certain Preparatory
  93. 93: Water Question at Montfermeil
  94. 94: Complete Portraits
  95. 95: Must Have Wine, and Horses Must Have Water
  96. 96: On the Scene of a Doll
  97. 97: Little One All Alone
  98. 98: Possibly Proves Boulatruelle’s Intelligence
  99. 99: Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark
  100. 100: Unpleasantness of Receiving into One’s House a Poor
  101. 101: Thénardier and His Manœuvres
  102. 102: Who Seeks to Better Himself May Render His Situation Worse
  103. 103: ,430 Reappears, and Cosette Wins It in the Lottery
  104. 104: Gorbeau
  105. 105: Nest for Owl and a Warbler
  106. 106: Misfortunes Make One Piece of Good Fortune
  107. 107: Remarks of the Principal Tenant
  108. 108: Five-Franc Piece Falls on the Ground and Produces a Tumult
  109. 109: Zigzags of Strategy
  110. 110: Is Lucky That the Pont D’Austerlitz Bears Carriages
  111. 111: Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727
  112. 112: Gropings of Flight
  113. 113: Would Be Impossible with Gas Lanterns
  114. 114: Beginning of an Enigma
  115. 115: Of the Enigma
  116. 116: Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious
  117. 117: Man with the Bell
  118. 118: Explains How Javert Got on the Scent
  119. 119: Rue Petit-Picpus
  120. 120: Obedience of Martin Verga
  121. 121: Chapter 121
  122. 122: Chapter 122
  123. 123: Chapter 123
  124. 124: Little Convent
  125. 125: Silhouettes of This Darkness
  126. 126: Corda Lapides
  127. 127: Century Under a Guimpe
  128. 128: Of the Perpetual Adoration
  129. 129: Of the Petit-Picpus
  130. 130: Convent As an Abstract Idea
  131. 131: Convent As an Historical Fact
  132. 132: What Conditions One Can Respect the Past
  133. 133: Convent from the Point of View of Principles
  134. 134: Chapter 134
  135. 135: Absolute Goodness of Prayer
  136. 136: To Be Observed in Blame
  137. 137: LAW
  138. 138: Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent
  139. 139: In the Presence of a Difficulty
  140. 140: Innocente
  141. 141: Which Jean Valjean Has Quite the Air of Having Read
  142. 142: Is Not Necessary to Be Drunk in Order to Be Immortal
  143. 143: Four Planks
  144. 144: Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don’t Lose
  145. 145: Successful Interrogatory
  146. 146: Chapter 146
  147. 147: Chapter 147
  148. 148: Of His Particular Characteristics
  149. 149: Is Agreeable
  150. 150: May Be of Use
  151. 151: Frontiers
  152. 152: Bit of History
  153. 153: Gamin Should Have His Place in the Classifications of
  154. 154: Which the Reader Will Find a Charming Saying of the
  155. 155: Old Soul of Gaul
  156. 156: Paris, Ecce Homo
  157. 157: Scoff, to Reign
  158. 158: Future Latent in the People
  159. 159: Gavroche
  160. 160: Years and Thirty-Two Teeth
  161. 161: Master, Like House
  162. 162: Chapter 162
  163. 163: Centenarian Aspirant
  164. 164: And Nicolette
  165. 165: Which Magnon and Her Two Children Are Seen
  166. 166: Receive No One Except in the Evening
  167. 167: Do Not Make a Pair
  168. 168: Ancient Salon
  169. 169: Of the Red Spectres of That Epoch
  170. 170: Chapter 170
  171. 171: Of the Brigand
  172. 172: Utility of Going to Mass, in Order to Become a
  173. 173: Consequences of Having Met a Warden
  174. 174: Petticoat
  175. 175: Against Granite
  176. 176: Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic
  177. 177: Funeral Oration by Bossuet
  178. 178: Astonishments
  179. 179: Back Room of the Café Musain
  180. 180: Of Horizon
  181. 181: Angusta
  182. 182: Indigent
  183. 183: Poor
  184. 184: Grown Up
  185. 185: Mabeuf
  186. 186: A Good Neighbor for Misery
  187. 187: Substitute
  188. 188: Sobriquet: Mode of Formation of Family Names
  189. 189: Facta Est
  190. 190: Of the Spring
  191. 191: Of a Great Malady
  192. 192: Claps of Thunder Fall on Ma’am Bougon
  193. 193: Prisoner
  194. 194: Of the Letter U Delivered Over to Conjectures
  195. 195: Veterans Themselves Can Be Happy
  196. 196: Chapter 196
  197. 197: And Miners
  198. 198: Lowest Depths
  199. 199: Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse
  200. 200: Of the Troupe
  201. 201: While Seeking a Girl in a Bonnet, Encounters a Man in
  202. 202: Trove
  203. 203: Chapter 203
  204. 204: Rose in Misery
  205. 205: Providential Peep-Hole
  206. 206: Wild Man in His Lair
  207. 207: And Tactics
  208. 208: Ray of Light in the Hovel
  209. 209: Comes Near Weeping
  210. 210: Of Licensed Cabs: Two Francs an Hour
  211. 211: Of Service from Misery to Wretchedness
  212. 212: Use Made of M. Leblanc’s Five-Franc Piece
  213. 213: Cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabuntur Orare
  214. 214: Which a Police Agent Bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer
  215. 215: Makes His Purchases
  216. 216: Which Will Be Found the Words to an English Air Which
  217. 217: Use Made of Marius’ Five-Franc Piece
  218. 218: Two Chairs Form a Vis-a-Vis
  219. 219: One’s Self with Obscure Depths
  220. 220: Trap
  221. 221: Should Always Begin by Arresting the Victims
  222. 222: Little One Who Was Crying in Volume Two
  223. 223: CUT
  224. 224: Sewed
  225. 225: Philippe
  226. 226: Beneath the Foundation
  227. 227: Whence History Springs and Which History Ignores
  228. 228: And His Lieutenants
  229. 229: Lark’s Meadow
  230. 230: Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons
  231. 231: To Father Mabeuf
  232. 232: Apparition to Marius
  233. 233: House with a Secret
  234. 234: Valjean As a National Guard
  235. 235: Ac Frondibus
  236. 236: Of Gate
  237. 237: Rose Perceives That It Is an Engine of War
  238. 238: Battle Begun
  239. 239: One Sadness Oppose a Sadness and a Half
  240. 240: Chain-Gang
  241. 241: Wound Without, Healing Within
  242. 242: Plutarque Finds No Difficulty in Explaining a
  243. 243: And the Barracks Combined
  244. 244: Apprehensions
  245. 245: With Commentaries by Toussaint
  246. 246: Heart Beneath a Stone
  247. 247: After the Letter
  248. 248: People Are Made to Go Out Opportunely
  249. 249: Malicious Playfulness of the Wind
  250. 250: Which Little Gavroche Extracts Profit from Napoleon the
  251. 251: Vicissitudes of Flight
  252. 252: Chapter 252
  253. 253: Chapter 253
  254. 254: Which Weeps and Slang Which Laughs
  255. 255: Two Duties: to Watch and to Hope
  256. 256: Light
  257. 257: Bewilderment of Perfect Happiness
  258. 258: Beginning of Shadow
  259. 259: Cab Runs in English and Barks in Slang
  260. 260: Of the Night
  261. 261: Becomes Practical Once More to the Extent of Giving
  262. 262: Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each
  263. 263: Valjean
  264. 264: Chapter 264
  265. 265: Mabeuf
  266. 266: Surface of the Question
  267. 267: Root of the Matter
  268. 268: Burial; an Occasion to Be Born Again
  269. 269: Ebullitions of Former Days
  270. 270: Of Paris
  271. 271: Explanations with Regard to the Origin of Gavroche’s
  272. 272: On the March
  273. 273: Indignation of a Hair-Dresser
  274. 274: Child Is Amazed at the Old Man
  275. 275: Old Man
  276. 276: Chapter 276
  277. 277: Of Corinthe from Its Foundation
  278. 278: Gayeties
  279. 279: Begins to Descend upon Grantaire
  280. 280: Attempt to Console the Widow Hucheloup
  281. 281: Chapter 281
  282. 282: Chapter 282
  283. 283: Man Recruited in the Rue Des Billettes
  284. 284: Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain Le
  285. 285: The Rue Plumet to the Quartier Saint-Denis
  286. 286: Owl’s View of Paris
  287. 287: Extreme Edge
  288. 288: Flag: Act First
  289. 289: Flag: Act Second
  290. 290: Would Have Done Better to Accept Enjolras’ Carbine
  291. 291: Barrel of Powder
  292. 292: Of the Verses of Jean Prouvaire
  293. 293: Agony of Death After the Agony of Life
  294. 294: As a Profound Calculator of Distances
  295. 295: Drinker Is a Babbler
  296. 296: Street Urchin an Enemy of Light
  297. 297: Cosette and Toussaint Are Asleep
  298. 298: Excess of Zeal
  299. 299: Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla of
  300. 300: Is to Be Done in the Abyss If One Does Not Converse
  301. 301: And Shadow
  302. 302: Five, Plus One
  303. 303: Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a Barricade
  304. 304: Haggard, Javert Laconic
  305. 305: Situation Becomes Aggravated
  306. 306: Artillery-Men Compel People to Take Them Seriously
  307. 307: Of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That
  308. 308: Chapter 308
  309. 309: Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One
  310. 310: A Partisan of Order
  311. 311: Gleams
  312. 312: Will Appear the Name of Enjolras’ Mistress
  313. 313: Outside
  314. 314: From a Brother One Becomes a Father
  315. 315: Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat
  316. 316: Vulture Become Prey
  317. 317: Valjean Takes His Revenge
  318. 318: Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the
  319. 319: Heroes
  320. 320: To Foot
  321. 321: Fasting and Pylades Drunk
  322. 322: Chapter 322
  323. 323: Land Impoverished by the Sea
  324. 324: History of the Sewer
  325. 325: Chapter 325
  326. 326: Chapter 326
  327. 327: Progress
  328. 328: Progress
  329. 329: Sewer and Its Surprises
  330. 330: Chapter 330
  331. 331: “Spun” Man
  332. 332: Also Bears His Cross
  333. 333: The Case of Sand As in That of Woman, There Is a Fineness
  334. 334: Fontis
  335. 335: Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is
  336. 336: Torn Coat-Tail
  337. 337: Produces on Some One Who Is a Judge of the Matter,
  338. 338: Of the Son Who Was Prodigal of His Life
  339. 339: In the Absolute
  340. 340: Grandfather
  341. 341: Chapter 341
  342. 342: Which the Tree with the Zinc Plaster Appears Again
  343. 343: Emerging from Civil War, Makes Ready for Domestic
  344. 344: Attacked
  345. 345: Gillenormand Ends by No Longer Thinking It a
  346. 346: Your Money in a Forest Rather Than with a Notary
  347. 347: Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own
  348. 348: Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happiness
  349. 349: Men Impossible to Find
  350. 350: Th of February, 1833
  351. 351: Valjean Still Wears His Arm in a Sling
  352. 352: Inseparable
  353. 353: Immortal Liver 68
  354. 354: Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven
  355. 355: Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Contain
  356. 356: Lower Chamber
  357. 357: Step Backwards
  358. 358: Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumet
  359. 359: And Extinction
  360. 360: For the Unhappy, but Indulgence for the Happy
  361. 361: Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil
  362. 362: Pen Is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent’s
  363. 363: Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whitening
  364. 364: Night Behind Which There Is Day
  365. 365: Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces