Les Misérables [EPUB]

1298 Pages·1862·10.87 MB·English

by  Charlotte Brontë

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.
This translation by Isabel F. Hapgood was first published in 1887.
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Contents

Preface

VOLUME 1. FANTINE
BOOK FIRST. A JUST MAN
Chapter 1. M. Myriel
Chapter 2. M. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome
Chapter 3. A Hard Bishopric For A Good Bishop
Chapter 4. Works Corresponding To Words
Chapter 5. Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long
Chapter 6. Who Guarded His House For Him
Chapter 7. Cravatte
Chapter 8. Philosophy After Drinking
Chapter 9. The Brother As Depicted By The Sister
Chapter 10. The Bishop In The Presence Of An Unknown Light
Chapter 11. A Restriction
Chapter 12. The Solitude Of Monseigneur Welcome
Chapter 13. What He Believed

Chapter 14. What He Thought
BOOK SECOND. THE FALL
Chapter 1. The Evening Of A Day Of Walking
Chapter 2. Prudence Counselled To Wisdom
Chapter 3. The Heroism Of Passive Obedience
Chapter 4. Details Concerning The Cheese-Dairies Of Pontarlier
Chapter 5. Tranquillity
Chapter 6. Jean Valjean
Chapter 7. The Interior Of Despair
Chapter 8. Billows And Shadows
Chapter 9. New Troubles
Chapter 10. The Man Aroused
Chapter 11. What He Does
Chapter 12. The Bishop Works
Chapter 13. Little Gervais
BOOK THIRD. IN THE YEAR 1817
Chapter 1. The Year 1817
Chapter 2. A Double Quartette
Chapter 3. Four And Four
Chapter 4. Tholomyès Is So Merry That He Sings A Spanish Ditty
Chapter 5. At Bombarda’s
Chapter 6. A Chapter In Which They Adore Each Other
Chapter 7. The Wisdom Of Tholomyès
Chapter 8. The Death Of A Horse

Chapter 9. A Merry End To Mirth
BOOK FOURTH. TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER
Chapter 1. One Mother Meets Another Mother
Chapter 2. First Sketch Of Two Unprepossessing Figures

Chapter 3. The Lark
BOOK FIFTH. THE DESCENT
Chapter 1. The History Of A Progress In Black Glass Trinkets
Chapter 2. Madeleine
Chapter 3. Sums Deposited With Laffitte
Chapter 4. M. Madeleine In Mourning
Chapter 5. Vague Flashes On The Horizon
Chapter 6. Father Fauchelevent
Chapter 7. Fauchelevent Becomes A Gardener In Paris
Chapter 8. Madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs On Morality
Chapter 9. Madame Victurnien’s Success
Chapter 10. Result Of The Success
Chapter 11. Christus Nos Liberavit
Chapter 12. M. Bamatabois’s Inactivity

Chapter 13. The Solution Of Some Questions Connected With The Municipal Police
BOOK SIXTH. JAVERT
Chapter 1. The Beginning Of Repose

Chapter 2. How Jean May Become Champ
BOOK SEVENTH. THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR
Chapter 1. Sister Simplice
Chapter 2. The Perspicacity Of Master Scaufflaire
Chapter 3. A Tempest In A Skull
Chapter 4. Forms Assumed By Suffering During Sleep
Chapter 5. Hindrances
Chapter 6. Sister Simplice Put To The Proof
Chapter 7. The Traveller On His Arrival Takes Precautions For Departure
Chapter 8. An Entrance By Favor
Chapter 9. A Place Where Convictions Are In Process Of Formation
Chapter 10. The System Of Denials

Chapter 11. Champmathieu More And More Astonished
BOOK EIGHTH. A COUNTER-BLOW
Chapter 1. In What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair
Chapter 2. Fantine Happy
Chapter 3. Javert Satisfied
Chapter 4. Authority Reasserts Its Rights

Chapter 5. A Suitable Tomb

VOLUME 2. COSETTE
BOOK FIRST. WATERLOO
Chapter 1. What Is Met With On The Way From Nivelles
Chapter 2. Hougomont
Chapter 3. The Eighteenth Of June, 1815
Chapter 4. A
Chapter 5. The Quid Obscurum Of Battles
Chapter 6. Four O’clock In The Afternoon
Chapter 7. Napoleon In A Good Humor
Chapter 8. The Emperor Puts A Question To The Guide Lacoste
Chapter 9. The Unexpected
Chapter 10. The Plateau Of Mont-Saint-Jean
Chapter 11. A Bad Guide To Napoleon; A Good Guide To Bülow
Chapter 12. The Guard
Chapter 13. The Catastrophe
Chapter 14. The Last Square
Chapter 15. Cambronne
Chapter 16. Quot Libras In Duce?
Chapter 17. Is Waterloo To Be Considered Good?
Chapter 18. A Recrudescence Of Divine Right
Chapter 19. The Battle-Field At Night
BOOK SECOND. THE SHIP ORION
Chapter 1. Number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430
Chapter 2. In Which The Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, Which Are Of The Devil’s
Composition, Possibly
Chapter 3. 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 1. The Water Question At Montfermeil
Chapter 2. Two Complete Portraits
Chapter 3. Men Must Have Wine, And Horses Must Have Water
Chapter 4. Entrance On The Scene Of A Doll
Chapter 5. The Little One All Alone
Chapter 6. Which Possibly Proves Boulatruelle’s Intelligence
Chapter 7. Cosette Side By Side With The Stranger In The Dark
Chapter 8. The Unpleasantness Of Receiving Into One’s House A Poor Man Who
May Be A Rich Man
Chapter 9. Thénardier And His Manœuvres
Chapter 10. He Who Seeks To Better Himself May Render His Situation Worse

Chapter 11. Number 9,430 Reappears, And Cosette Wins It In The Lottery
BOOK FOURTH. THE GORBEAU HOVEL
Chapter 1. Master Gorbeau
Chapter 2. A Nest For Owl And A Warbler
Chapter 3. Two Misfortunes Make One Piece Of Good Fortune
Chapter 4. The Remarks Of The Principal Tenant

Chapter 5. A Five-Franc Piece Falls On The Ground And Produces A Tumult
BOOK FIFTH. FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK
Chapter 1. The Zigzags Of Strategy
Chapter 2. It Is Lucky That The Pont D’austerlitz Bears Carriages
Chapter 3. To Wit, The Plan Of Paris In 1727
Chapter 4. The Gropings Of Flight
Chapter 5. Which Would Be Impossible With Gas Lanterns
Chapter 6. The Beginning Of An Enigma
Chapter 7. Continuation Of The Enigma
Chapter 8. The Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious
Chapter 9. The Man With The Bell
Chapter 10. Which Explains How Javert Got On The Scent
BOOK SIXTH. LE PETIT-PICPUS
Chapter 1. Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus
Chapter 2. The Obedience Of Martin Verga
Chapter 3. Austerities
Chapter 4. Gayeties
Chapter 5. Distractions
Chapter 6. The Little Convent
Chapter 7. Some Silhouettes Of This Darkness
Chapter 8. Post Corda Lapides
Chapter 9. A Century Under A Guimpe
Chapter 10. Origin Of The Perpetual Adoration

Chapter 11. End Of The Petit-Picpus
BOOK SEVENTH. PARENTHESIS
Chapter 1. The Convent As An Abstract Idea
Chapter 2. The Convent As An Historical Fact
Chapter 3. On What Conditions One Can Respect The Past
Chapter 4. The Convent From The Point Of View Of Principles
Chapter 5. Prayer
Chapter 6. The Absolute Goodness Of Prayer
Chapter 7. Precautions To Be Observed In Blame

Chapter 8. Faith, Law
BOOK EIGHTH. CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM
Chapter 1. Which Treats Of The Manner Of Entering A Convent
Chapter 2. Fauchelevent In The Presence Of A Difficulty
Chapter 3. Mother Innocente
Chapter 4. In Which Jean Valjean Has Quite The Air Of Having Read Austin Castillejo
Chapter 5. It Is Not Necessary To Be Drunk In Order To Be Immortal
Chapter 6. Between Four Planks
Chapter 7. In Which Will Be Found The Origin Of The Saying: Don’t Lose The Card
Chapter 8. A Successful Interrogatory

Chapter 9. Cloistered

VOLUME 3. MARIUS
BOOK FIRST. PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM
Chapter 1. Parvulus
Chapter 2. Some Of His Particular Characteristics
Chapter 3. He Is Agreeable
Chapter 4. He May Be Of Use
Chapter 5. His Frontiers
Chapter 6. A Bit Of History
Chapter 7. The Gamin Should Have His Place In The Classifications Of India
Chapter 8. In Which The Reader Will Find A Charming Saying Of The Last King
Chapter 9. The Old Soul Of Gaul
Chapter 10. Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo
Chapter 11. To Scoff, To Reign
Chapter 12. The Future Latent In The People

Chapter 13. Little Gavroche
BOOK SECOND. THE GREAT BOURGEOIS
Chapter 1. Ninety Years And Thirty-Two Teeth
Chapter 2. Like Master, Like House
Chapter 3. Luc-Esprit
Chapter 4. A Centenarian Aspirant
Chapter 5. Basque And Nicolette
Chapter 6. In Which Magnon And Her Two Children Are Seen
Chapter 7. Rule: Receive No One Except In The Evening

Chapter 8. Two Do Not Make A Pair
BOOK THIRD. THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON
Chapter 1. An Ancient Salon
Chapter 2. One Of The Red Spectres Of That Epoch
Chapter 3. Requiescant
Chapter 4. End Of The Brigand
Chapter 5. The Utility Of Going To Mass, In Order To Become A Revolutionist
Chapter 6. The Consequences Of Having Met A Warden
Chapter 7. Some Petticoat

Chapter 8. Marble Against Granite
BOOK FOURTH. THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C
Chapter 1. A Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic
Chapter 2. Blondeau’s Funeral Oration By Bossuet
Chapter 3. Marius’ Astonishments
Chapter 4. The Back Room Of The Café Musain
Chapter 5. Enlargement Of Horizon

Chapter 6. Res Angusta
BOOK FIFTH. THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE
Chapter 1. Marius Indigent
Chapter 2. Marius Poor
Chapter 3. Marius Grown Up
Chapter 4. M. Mabeuf
Chapter 5. Poverty A Good Neighbor For Misery

Chapter 6. The Substitute
BOOK SIXTH. THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS
Chapter 1. The Sobriquet: Mode Of Formation Of Family Names
Chapter 2. Lux Facta Est
Chapter 3. Effect Of The Spring
Chapter 4. Beginning Of A Great Malady
Chapter 5. Divers Claps Of Thunder Fall On Ma’am Bougon
Chapter 6. Taken Prisoner
Chapter 7. Adventures Of The Letter U Delivered Over To Conjectures
Chapter 8. The Veterans Themselves Can Be Happy

Chapter 9. Eclipse
BOOK SEVENTH. PATRON MINETTE
Chapter 1. Mines And Miners
Chapter 2. The Lowest Depths
Chapter 3. Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, And Montparnasse

Chapter 4. Composition Of The Troupe
BOOK EIGHTH. THE WICKED POOR MAN
Chapter 1. Marius, While Seeking A Girl In A Bonnet, Encounters A Man In A Cap
Chapter 2. Treasure Trove
Chapter 3. Quadrifrons
Chapter 4. A Rose In Misery
Chapter 5. A Providential Peep-Hole
Chapter 6. The Wild Man In His Lair
Chapter 7. Strategy And Tactics
Chapter 8. The Ray Of Light In The Hovel
Chapter 9. Jondrette Comes Near Weeping
Chapter 10. Tariff Of Licensed Cabs: Two Francs An Hour