Les Misérables (novel)/Source

Translated from the original French by Isabel F. Hapgood


 * Preface


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 * Read all Volume 3 chapters
 * Read all Volume 4 chapters
 * Read all Volume 5 chapters


 * Volume 1: Fantine
 * Book 1: 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 2: 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 3: In the Year 1817
 * Chapter 1: In the Year 1817
 * Chapter 2: A Double Quartette
 * Chapter 3: Four and Four
 * Chapter 4: Tholomyes is so Merry that he sings a Spanish Ditty
 * Chapter 5: At Bombardas
 * Chapter 6: A Chapter in which They Adore Each Other
 * Chapter 7: The Wisdom of Tholomyes
 * Chapter 8: The Death of a Horse
 * Chapter 9: A Merry End to Mirth
 * Book 4: 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 5: 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 6: Javert
 * Chapter 1: The Beginning of Repose
 * Chapter 2: How Jean may become Champ
 * Book 7: 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: A System of Denials
 * Chapter 11: Champmathieu more and more Astonished
 * Book 8: 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 1: 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 Bulow
 * 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 2: 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 3: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to a 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: Thenardier at his Manoeuvres
 * 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 4: 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 5: 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 6: 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 7: 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 8: Cemetaries Take That Which is Commited 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 1: 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 2: 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 3: 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 Revolutionist
 * Chapter 6: The Consequences of having met a Warden
 * Chapter 7: Some Petticoat
 * Chapter 8: Marble against Granite
 * Book 4: The Friends of the ABC
 * 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 Cafe Musain
 * Chapter 5: Enlargement of Horizon
 * Chapter 6: Res Angusta
 * Book 5: 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 6: 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 7: 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 8: 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
 * Chapter 11: Offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness
 * Chapter 12: The Use made of M. Leblanc's Five-Franc Piece
 * Chapter 13: Solus cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, non cogitabuntur orare Pater Noster
 * Chapter 14: In which a Police Agent bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer
 * Chapter 15: Jondrette makes his Purchases
 * Chapter 16: In which will be found the Words to an English Air which was in Fashion in 1832
 * Chapter 17: The Use made of Marius' Five-Franc Piece
 * Chapter 18: Marius' Two Chairs form a Vis-a-Vis
 * Chapter 19: Occupying One's Self with Obscure Depths
 * Chapter 20: The Trap
 * Chapter 21: One should always begin by arresting the Victims
 * Chapter 22: The Little One who was crying in Volume Two


 * Volume 4: Saint Denis
 * Book 1: A Few Pages of History
 * Chapter 1: Well Cut
 * Chapter 2: Badly Sewed
 * Chapter 3: Louis Philippe
 * Chapter 4: Cracks beneath the Foundation
 * Chapter 5: Facts whence History springs and which History ignores
 * Chapter 6: Enjolras and his Lieutenants
 * Book 2: Eponine
 * Chapter 1: The Lark's Meadow
 * Chapter 2: Embryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons
 * Chapter 3: Apparition to Father Mabeuf
 * Chapter 4: An Apparition to Marius
 * Book 3: The House in the Rue Plumet
 * Chapter 1: The House with a Secret
 * Chapter 2: Jean Valjean as a National Guard
 * Chapter 3: Foliis ac Frondibus
 * Chapter 4: Change of Gate
 * Chapter 5: The Rose perceives that it is an Engine of War
 * Chapter 6: The Battle Begun
 * Chapter 7: To One Sadness oppose a Sadness and a Half
 * Chapter 8: The Chain-Gang
 * Book 4: Succor from Below May Turn Out to Be Succor from On High
 * Chapter 1: A Wound without, Healing within
 * Chapter 2: Mother Plutarque finds no Difficulty in explaining a Phenomenon
 * Book 5: The End of Which does not Resemble the Beginning
 * Chapter 1: Solitude and Barracks Combined
 * Chapter 2: Cosette's Apprehensions
 * Chapter 3: Enriched with Commentaries by Toussaint
 * Chapter 4: A Heart beneath a Stone
 * Chapter 5: Cosette after the Letter
 * Chapter 6: Old People are made to go out opportunely
 * Book 6: Little Gavroche
 * Chapter 1: The Malicious Playfulness of the Wind
 * Chapter 2: In which Little Gavroche extracts Profit from Napoleon the Great
 * Chapter 3: The Vicissitudes of Flight
 * Book 7: Slang
 * Chapter 1: Origin
 * Chapter 2: Roots
 * Chapter 3: Slang which weeps and Slang which laughs
 * Chapter 4: The Two Duties: To Watch and to Hope
 * Book 8: Enchantments and Desolations
 * Chapter 1: Full Light
 * Chapter 2: The Bewilderment of Perfect Happiness
 * Chapter 3: The Beginning of Shadow
 * Chapter 4: A Cab runs in English and barks in Slang
 * Chapter 5: Things of the Night
 * Chapter 6: Marius becomes Practical once more to the Extent of Giving Cosette his Address
 * Chapter 7: The Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each Other
 * Book 9: Whither are They Going?
 * Chapter 1: Jean Valjean
 * Chapter 2: Marius
 * Chapter 3: M. Mabeuf
 * Book 10: The 5th of June, 1832
 * Chapter 1: The Surface of the Question
 * Chapter 2: The Root of the Matter
 * Chapter 3: A Burial; an Occasion to be born again
 * Chapter 4: The Ebullitions of Former Days
 * Chapter 5: Originality of Paris
 * 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
 * Chapter 2: Gavroche on the March
 * Chapter 3: Just Indignation of a Hair-dresser
 * Chapter 4: The Child is amazed at the Old Man
 * Chapter 5: The Old Man
 * Chapter 6: Recruits
 * Book 12: Corinthe
 * Chapter 1: History of Corinthe from its Foundation
 * Chapter 2: Preliminary Gayeties
 * Chapter 3: Night begins to descend upon Grantaire
 * Chapter 4: An Attempt to console the Widow Hucheloup
 * Chapter 5: Preparations
 * Chapter 6: Waiting
 * Chapter 7: The Man recruited in the Rue des Billettes
 * Chapter 8: Many Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain Le Cabuc, whose Name may not have been Le Cabuc
 * Book 13: Marius Enters the Shadow
 * Chapter 1: From the Rue Plumet to the Quartier Saint-Denis
 * Chapter 2: An Owl's View of Paris
 * Chapter 3: The Extreme Edge
 * Book 14: The Grandeurs of Despair
 * Chapter 1: The Flag: Act First
 * Chapter 2: The Flag: Act Second
 * Chapter 3: Gavroche would have done better to accept Enjolras' Carbine
 * Chapter 4: The Barrel of Powder
 * Chapter 5: End of the Verses of Jean Prouvaire
 * Chapter 6: The Agony of Death after the Agony of Life
 * Chapter 7: Gavroche as a Profound Calculator of Distances
 * Book 15: The Rue de L'Homme Arme
 * Chapter 1: A Drinker is a Babbler
 * Chapter 2: The Street Urchin an Enemy of Light
 * Chapter 3: While Cosette and Toussaint are Asleep
 * Chapter 4: Gavroche's Excess of Zeal


 * 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
 * Chapter 2: What Is to Be Done in the Abyss if One Does Not Converse
 * Chapter 3: Light and Shadow
 * Chapter 4: Minus Five, Plus One
 * Chapter 5: The Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a Barricade
 * Chapter 6: Marius Haggard, Javert Laconic
 * Chapter 7: The Situation Becomes Aggravated
 * Chapter 8: The Artillery-men Compel People to Take Them Seriously
 * Chapter 9: Employment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That Infallible Marksmanship Which Influenced the Condemnation of 1796
 * Chapter 10: Dawn
 * Chapter 11: The Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One
 * Chapter 12: Disorder a Partisan of Order
 * Chapter 13: Passing Gleams
 * Chapter 14: Wherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras' Mistress
 * Chapter 15: Gavroche Outside
 * Chapter 16: How from a Brother One Becomes a Father
 * Chapter 17: Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat
 * Chapter 18: The Vulture Becomes Prey
 * Chapter 19: Jean Valjean Takes His Revenge
 * Chapter 20: The Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the Wrong
 * Chapter 21: The Heroes
 * Chapter 22: Foot to Foot
 * Chapter 23: Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk
 * Chapter 24: Prisoner
 * Book 2: The Intestine of the Leviathan
 * Chapter 1: The Land Impoverished by the Sea
 * Chapter 2: Ancient History of the Sewer
 * Chapter 3: Bruneseau
 * Chapter 4: (Unnamed)
 * Chapter 5: Present Progress
 * Chapter 6: Future Progress
 * Book 3: Mud But the Soul
 * Chapter 1: The Sewer and Its Surprises
 * Chapter 2: Explanation
 * Chapter 3: The "Spun" Man
 * Chapter 4: He Also Bears His Cross
 * Chapter 5: In the Case of Sand, as in That of Woman, There Is a Fineness Which Is Treacherous
 * Chapter 6: The Fontis
 * Chapter 7: One Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is Disembarking
 * Chapter 8: The Torn Coat-Tail
 * Chapter 9: Marius Produces on Some One Who Is a Judge of the Matter, the Effect of Being Dead
 * Chapter 10: Return of the Son Who Was Prodigal of His Life
 * Chapter 11: Concussion in the Absolute
 * Chapter 12: The Grandfather
 * Book 4: Javert Derailed
 * Chapter 1: (Unnamed)
 * Book 5: Grandson and Grandfather
 * Chapter 1: In Which the Tree with the Zinc Plaster Appears Again
 * Chapter 2: Marius, Emerging from Civil War, Makes Ready for Domestic War
 * Chapter 3: Marius Attacked
 * Chapter 4: Mademoiselle Gillenormand Ends by No Longer Thinking It a Bad Thing That M. Fauchelevent Should Have Entered With Something Under His Arm
 * Chapter 5: Deposit Your Money in a Forest Rather than with a Notary
 * Chapter 6: The Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own Fashion, to Render Cosette Happy
 * Chapter 7: The Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happiness
 * Chapter 8: Two Men Impossible to Find
 * Book 6: The Sleepless Night
 * Chapter 1: The 16th of February, 1833
 * Chapter 2: Jean Valjean Still Wears His Arm in a Sling
 * Chapter 3: The Inseparable
 * Chapter 4: The Immortal Liver
 * Book 7: The Last Draught from the Cup
 * Chapter 1: The Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven
 * Chapter 2: The Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Contain
 * Book 8: Fading away of the Twilight
 * Chapter 1: The Lower Chamber
 * Chapter 2: Another Step Backwards
 * Chapter 3: They Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumet
 * Chapter 4: Attraction and Extinction
 * Book 9: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn
 * Chapter 1: Pity for the Unhappy, but Indulgence for the Happy
 * Chapter 2: Last Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil
 * Chapter 3: A Pen Is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent's Cart
 * Chapter 4: A Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whitening
 * Chapter 5: A Night Behind Which There Is Day
 * Chapter 6: The Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces


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