Les Misérables (novel)/Source

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Translated from the original French by Isabel F. Hapgood.

Volume 1: Fantine

Volume 2: Cosette

Volume 3: Marius

Volume 4: Saint Denis

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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