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Les Misérables — Victor Hugo
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1. M. Myriel
2. M. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome
3. Expenses of Carriage and Circuit
4. A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop
5. Works Corresponding to Words
6. Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long
7. Who Guarded His House for Him
8. Cravatte
9. Philosophy After Drinking
10. The Brother as Depicted by the Sister
11. The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light
12. A Restriction
13. The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome
14. What He Believed
15. What He Thought
16. The Evening of a Day of Walking
17. Prudence Counselled to Wisdom
18. The Heroism of Passive Obedience
19. Details Concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier
20. Tranquillity
21. Jean Valjean
22. The Interior of Despair
23. Billows and Shadows
24. New Troubles
25. The Man Aroused
26. What He Does
27. The Bishop Works
28. Little Gervais
29. The Year 1817
30. A Double Quartette
31. Four and Four
32. Tholomyes Is So Merry That He Sings a Spanish Ditty
33. At Bombarda's
34. a Chapter in Which They Adore Each Other
35. The Wisdom of Tholomyes
36. The Death of a Horse
37. A Merry End to Mirth
38. One Mother Meets Another Mother
39. First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures
40. The Lark
41. The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets
42. Madeleine
43. Sums Deposited with Laffitte
44. M. Madeleine in Mourning
45. Vague Flashes on the Horizon
46. Father Fauchelevent
47. Fauchelevent Becomes a Gardener in Paris
48. Madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs on Morality
49. Madame Victurnien's Success
50. Result of the Success
51. Christus Nos Liberavit
52. M. Bamatabois's Inactivity
53. The Solution of Some Questions Connected with the Municipal Police
54. The Beginning of Repose
55. How Jean May Become Champ
56. Sister Simplice
57. The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire
58. A Tempest in a Skull
59. Forms Assumed by Suffering During Sleep
60. Hindrances
61. Sister Simplice Put to the Proof
62. The Traveller on His Arrival Takes Precautions for Departure
63. An Entrance by Favor
64. A Place Where Convictions Are in Process of Formation
65. The System of Denials
66. Champmathieu More and More Astonished
67. In What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair
68. Fantine Happy
69. Javert Satisfied
70. Authority Reasserts Its Rights
71. A Suitable Tomb
72. What Is Met with on the Way From Nivelles
73. Hougomont
74. The Eighteenth of June, 1815
75. Chapter Iv-A
76. The Quid Obscurum of Battles
77. Four O'Clock in the Afternoon
78. Napoleon in a Good Humor
79. The Emperor Puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste
80. The Unexpected
81. The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean
82. A Bad Guide to Napoleon; a Good Guide to Bulow
83. The Guard
84. The Catastrophe
85. The Last Square
86. Cambronne
87. Quot Libras in Duce?
88. Is Waterloo to Be Considered Good?
89. A Recrudescence of Divine Right
90. The Battle-Field at Night
91. Number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430
92. In Which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses
93. The Ankle-Chain Must Have Undergone a Certain Preparatory Manipulation to Be...
94. The Water Question at Montfermeil
95. Two Complete Portraits
96. Men Must Have Wine, and Horses Must Have Water
97. Entrance on the Scene of a Doll
98. The Little One All Alone
99. Which Possibly Proves Boulatruelle's Intelligence
100. Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark
101. The Unpleasantness of Receiving Into One's House a Poor Man Who May Be a Rich...
102. Thenardier and His Manoeuvres
103. He Who Seeks to Better Himself May Render His Situation Worse
104. Number 9,430 Reappears, and Cosette Wins It in the Lottery
105. Master Gorbeau
106. A Nest for Owl and a Warbler
107. Two Misfortunes Make One Piece of Good Fortune
108. The Remarks of the Principal Tenant
109. A Five-Franc Piece Falls on the Ground and Produces a Tumult
110. The Zigzags of Strategy
111. It Is Lucky That the Pont D'Austerlitz Bears Carriages
112. To Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727
113. The Gropings of Flight
114. Which Would Be Impossible with Gas Lanterns
115. The Beginning of an Enigma
116. Continuation of the Enigma
117. The Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious
118. The Man with the Bell
119. Which Explains How Javert Got on the Scent
120. Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus
121. The Obedience of Martin Verga
122. Austerities
123. Gayeties
124. Distractions
125. The Little Convent
126. Some Silhouettes of This Darkness
127. Post Corda Lapides
128. A Century Under a Guimpe
129. Origin of the Perpetual Adoration
130. End of the Petit-Picpus
131. The Convent as an Abstract Idea
132. The Convent as an Historical Fact
133. On What Conditions One Can Respect the Past
134. The Convent From the Point of View of Principles
135. Prayer
136. The Absolute Goodness of Prayer
137. Precautions to Be Observed in Blame
138. Faith, Law
139. Which Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent
140. Fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty
141. Mother Innocente
142. In Which Jean Valjean Has Quite the Air of Having Read Austin Castillejo
143. It Is Not Necessary to Be Drunk in Order to Be Immortal
144. Between Four Planks
145. In Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don't Lose the Card
146. A Successful Interrogatory
147. Cloistered
148. Parvulus
149. Some of His Particular Characteristics
150. He Is Agreeable
151. He May Be of Use
152. His Frontiers
153. a Bit of History
154. The Gamin Should Have His Place in the Classifications of India
155. In Which the Reader Will Find a Charming Saying of the Last King
156. The Old Soul of Gaul
157. Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo
158. To Scoff, to Reign
159. The Future Latent in the People
160. Little Gavroche
161. Ninety Years and Thirty-Two Teeth
162. Like Master, Like House
163. Luc-Esprit
164. A Centenarian Aspirant
165. Basque and Nicolette
166. In Which Magnon and Her Two Children Are Seen
167. Rule: Receive No One Except in the Evening
168. Two Do Not Make a Pair
169. An Ancient Salon
170. One of the Red Spectres of That Epoch
171. Requiescant
172. End of the Brigand
173. The Utility of Going to Mass, in Order to Become a Revolutionist
174. The Consequences of Having Met a Warden
175. Some Petticoat
176. Marble Against Granite
177. A Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic
178. Blondeau's Funeral Oration by Bossuet
179. Marius' Astonishments
180. The Back Room of the Cafe Musain
181. Enlargement of Horizon
182. Res Angusta
183. Marius Indigent
184. Marius Poor
185. Marius Grown Up
186. M. Mabeuf
187. Poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery
188. The Substitute
189. The Sobriquet: Mode of Formation of Family Names
190. Lux Facta Est
191. Effect of the Spring
192. Beginning of a Great Malady
193. Divers Claps of Thunder Fall on Ma'Am Bougon
194. Taken Prisoner
195. Adventures of the Letter U Delivered Over to Conjectures
196. The Veterans Themselves Can Be Happy
197. Eclipse
198. Mines and Miners
199. The Lowest Depths
200. Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse
201. Composition of the Troupe
202. Marius, While Seeking a Girl in a Bonnet, Encounters a Man in a Cap
203. Treasure Trove
204. Quadrifrons
205. A Rose in Misery
206. A Providential Peep-Hole
207. The Wild Man in His Lair
208. Strategy and Tactics
209. The Ray of Light in the Hovel
210. Jondrette Comes Near Weeping
211. Tariff of Licensed Cabs: Two Francs an Hour
212. Offers of Service From Misery to Wretchedness
213. The Use Made of M. Leblanc's Five-Franc Piece
214. Solus Cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabuntur Orare Pater Noster
215. In Which a Police Agent Bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer
216. Jondrette Makes His Purchases
217. In Which Will Be Found the Words to an English Air Which Was in Fashion in 1832
218. The Use Made of Marius' Five-Franc Piece
219. Marius' Two Chairs Form a Vis-A-Vis
220. Occupying One's Self with Obscure Depths
221. The Trap
222. One Should Always Begin by Arresting the Victims
223. The Little One Who Was Crying in Volume Two
224. Well Cut
225. Badly Sewed
226. Louis Philippe
227. Cracks Beneath the Foundation
228. Facts Whence History Springs and Which History Ignores
229. Enjolras and His Lieutenants
230. The Lark's Meadow
231. Embryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons
232. Apparition to Father Mabeuf
233. An Apparition to Marius
234. The House with a Secret
235. Jean Valjean as a National Guard
236. Foliis Ac Frondibus
237. Change of Gate
238. The Rose Perceives That It Is an Engine of War
239. The Battle Begun
240. To One Sadness Oppose a Sadness and a Half
241. The Chain-Gang
242. A Wound Without, Healing Within
243. Mother Plutarque Finds No Difficulty in Explaining a Phenomenon
244. Solitude and the Barracks Combined
245. Cosette's Apprehensions
246. Enriched with Commentaries by Toussaint
247. A Heart Beneath a Stone
248. Cosette After the Letter
249. Old People Are Made to Go Out Opportunely
250. The Malicious Playfulness of the Wind
251. In Which Little Gavroche Extracts Profit From Napoleon the Great
252. The Vicissitudes of Flight
253. Origin
254. Roots
255. Slang Which Weeps and Slang Which Laughs
256. The Two Duties: to Watch and to Hope
257. Full Light
258. The Bewilderment of Perfect Happiness
259. The Beginning of Shadow
260. A Cab Runs in English and Barks in Slang
261. Things of the Night
262. Marius Becomes Practical Once More to the Extent of Giving Cosette His Address
263. The Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each Other
264. Jean Valjean
265. Rue De La Verrerie
266. Marius
267. M. Mabeuf
268. The Surface of the Question
269. The Root of the Matter
270. A Burial; an Occasion to Be Born Again
271. The Ebullitions of Former Days
272. Originality of Paris
273. Some Explanations with Regard to the Origin of Gavroche's Poetry
274. Gavroche on the March
275. Just Indignation of a Hair-Dresser
276. The Child Is Amazed at the Old Man
277. The Old Man
278. Recruits
279. History of Corinthe From Its Foundation
280. Napoleon Is Made Wholly of Willow
281. Carpes Ho Gras
282. Preliminary Gayeties
283. Night Begins to Descend Upon Grantaire
284. An Attempt to Console the Widow Hucheloup
285. Preparations
286. Waiting
287. The Man Recruited in the Rue Des Billettes
288. Many Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain Le Cabuc Whose Name May Not...
289. From the Rue Plumet to the Quartier Saint-Denis
290. An Owl's View of Paris
291. The Extreme Edge
292. The Flag: Act First
293. The Flag: Act Second
294. Gavroche Would Have Done Better to Accept Enjolras' Carbine
295. The Barrel of Powder
296. End of the Verses of Jean Prouvaire
297. The Agony of Death After the Agony of Life
298. Gavroche as a Profound Calculator of Distances
299. A Drinker Is a Babbler
300. The Street Urchin an Enemy of Light
301. While Cosette and Toussaint Are Asleep
302. Gavroche's Excess of Zeal
303. The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla of the Faubourg Du...
304. What Is to Be Done in the Abyss if One Does Not Converse
305. Light and Shadow
306. Minus Five, Plus One
307. The Horizon Which One Beholds From the Summit of a Barricade
308. Marius Haggard, Javert Laconic
309. The Situation Becomes Aggravated
310. The Artillery-Men Compel People to Take Them Seriously
311. Employment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That Infallible Marksmanship...
312. Dawn
313. The Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One
314. Disorder a Partisan of Order
315. Passing Gleams
316. Wherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras' Mistress
317. Gavroche Outside
318. How From a Brother One Becomes a Father
319. Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat
320. The Vulture Become Prey
321. Jean Valjean Takes His Revenge
322. The Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the Wrong
323. The Heroes
324. Foot to Foot
325. Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk
326. Prisoner
327. The Land Impoverished by the Sea
328. Ancient History of the Sewer
329. Bruneseau
330. Chapter 330
331. Present Progress
332. Future Progress
333. The Sewer and Its Surprises
334. Explanation
335. The "Spun" Man
336. He Also Bears His Cross
337. In the Case of Sand as in That of Woman, There Is a Fineness Which Is...
338. The Fontis
339. One Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is Disembarking
340. The Torn Coat-Tail
341. Marius Produces on Some One Who Is a Judge of the Matter the Effect of Being...
342. Return of the Son Who Was Prodigal of His Life
343. Concussion in the Absolute
344. The Grandfather
345. Chapter 345
346. In Which the Tree with the Zinc Plaster Appears Again
347. Marius, Emerging From CIVIL War, Makes Ready for Domestic War
348. Marius Attacked
349. Mademoiselle Gillenormand Ends by No Longer Thinking It a Bad Thing That M
350. Deposit Your Money in a Forest Rather Than with a Notary
351. The Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own Fashion
352. The Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happiness
353. Two Men Impossible to Find
354. The 16th of February, 1833
355. Jean Valjean Still Wears His Arm in a Sling
356. The Inseparable
357. The Immortal Liver 68
358. The Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven
359. The Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Contain
360. The Lower Chamber
361. Another Step Backwards
362. They Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumet
363. Attraction and Extinction
364. Pity for the Unhappy, but Indulgence for the Happy
365. Last Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil
366. A Pen Is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent's Cart
367. A Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whitening
368. A Night Behind Which There Is Day
369. The Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces
370. Letter to M. Daelli
371. Malheur Sous Un Chariot, Monsieur Bernard De Brye Marchand a Bruxelle Le...
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