Les Misérables (novel)/Source
Translated from the original French by Isabel F. Hapgood.
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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
- 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
- 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
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 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 2: The Ship Orion
- 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
- 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
- Book 5: The Excellence of Misfortune
- 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
- 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
- Book 2: Eponine
- 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
- Book 5: The End of Which does not Resemble the Beginning
- Book 6: Little Gavroche
- Book 7: Slang
- 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?
- Book 10: The 5th of June, 1832
- Book 11: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane
- 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
- 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 Armé
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
- 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
- Book 7: The Last Draught from the Cup
- 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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