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Les Misérables

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"Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo is a French epic historical novel published in 1862. Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, it follows ex-convict Jean Valjean's struggle for redemption. The novel explores the nature of law and grace, examining themes of justice, poverty, and love through the lives of interconnected characters in nineteenth-century France. Considered one of the greatest novels of its century, it depicts society's most downtrodden members and their fight for dignity.

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  • Historical fiction
  • Orphans
  • Paris (France)
  • Epic literature
  • Ex-convicts

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  1. Chapter VI — The Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces
  2. Preface
  3. Chapter II — M: Myriel Becomes M. Welcome
  4. Chapter III — A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop
  5. Chapter IV — Works Corresponding to Words
  6. Chapter V — Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long
  7. Chapter VI — Who Guarded His House for Him
  8. Chapter VII — Cravatte
  9. Chapter VIII — Philosophy After Drinking
  10. Chapter IX — The Brother As Depicted by the Sister
  11. Chapter X — The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light
  12. Chapter XI — A Restriction
  13. Chapter XII — The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome
  14. Chapter XIII — What He Believed
  15. Chapter XIV — What He Thought
  16. Book Second — The Fall
  17. Chapter I — The Evening of a Day of Walking
  18. Chapter II — Prudence Counselled to Wisdom
  19. Chapter III — The Heroism of Passive Obedience
  20. Chapter IV — Details Concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier
  21. Chapter V — Tranquillity
  22. Chapter VI — Jean Valjean
  23. Chapter VII — The Interior of Despair
  24. Chapter VIII — Billows and Shadows
  25. Chapter IX — New Troubles
  26. Chapter X — The Man Aroused
  27. Chapter XI — What He Does
  28. Chapter XII — The Bishop Works
  29. Chapter XIII — Little Gervais
  30. Book Third — In the Year 1817
  31. Chapter I — The Year 1817
  32. Chapter II — A Double Quartette
  33. Chapter III — Four and Four
  34. Chapter IV — TholomyÈS Is So Merry That He Sings a Spanish Ditty
  35. Chapter V — At Bombarda’s
  36. Chapter VI — A Chapter in Which They Adore Each Other
  37. Chapter VII — The Wisdom of TholomyÈS
  38. Chapter VIII — The Death of a Horse
  39. Chapter IX — A Merry End to Mirth
  40. Book Fourth — To Confide Is Sometimes to Deliver into a Person’s Power
  41. Chapter I — One Mother Meets Another Mother
  42. Chapter II — First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures
  43. Chapter III — The Lark
  44. Book Fifth — The Descent
  45. Chapter I — The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets
  46. Chapter II — Madeleine
  47. Chapter III — Sums Deposited with Laffitte
  48. Chapter IV — M: Madeleine in Mourning
  49. Chapter V — Vague Flashes on the Horizon
  50. Chapter VI — Father Fauchelevent
  51. Chapter VII — Fauchelevent Becomes a Gardener in Paris
  52. Chapter VIII — Madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs on Morality
  53. Chapter IX — Madame Victurnien’s Success
  54. Chapter X — Result of the Success
  55. Chapter XI — Christus Nos Liberavit
  56. Chapter XII — M: Bamatabois’s Inactivity
  57. Chapter XIII — The Solution of Some Questions Connected with the: Municipal Police
  58. Book Sixth — Javert
  59. Chapter I — The Beginning of Repose
  60. Chapter II — How Jean May Become Champ
  61. Book Seventh — The Champmathieu Affair
  62. Chapter I — Sister Simplice
  63. Chapter II — The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire
  64. Chapter III — A Tempest in a Skull
  65. Chapter IV — Forms Assumed by Suffering During Sleep
  66. Chapter V — Hindrances
  67. Chapter VI — Sister Simplice Put to the Proof
  68. Chapter VII — The Traveller on His Arrival Takes Precautions for: Departure
  69. Chapter VIII — An Entrance by Favor
  70. Chapter IX — A Place Where Convictions Are in Process of Formation
  71. Chapter X — The System of Denials
  72. Chapter XI — Champmathieu More and More Astonished
  73. Book Eighth — A Counter-Blow
  74. Chapter I — In What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair
  75. Chapter II — Fantine Happy
  76. Chapter III — Javert Satisfied
  77. Chapter IV — Authority Reasserts Its Rights
  78. Chapter V — A Suitable Tomb
  79. Chapter II — Hougomont
  80. Chapter III — The Eighteenth of June, 1815
  81. Chapter IV — A
  82. Chapter V — The Quid Obscurum of Battles
  83. Chapter VI — Four O’clock in the Afternoon
  84. Chapter VII — Napoleon in a Good Humor
  85. Chapter VIII — The Emperor Puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste
  86. Chapter IX — The Unexpected
  87. Chapter X — The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean
  88. Chapter XI — A Bad Guide to Napoleon; a Good Guide to BÜLow
  89. Chapter XII — The Guard
  90. Chapter XIII — The Catastrophe
  91. Chapter XIV — The Last Square
  92. Chapter XV — Cambronne
  93. Chapter XVI — Quot Libras in Duce?
  94. Chapter XVII — Is Waterloo to Be Considered Good?
  95. Chapter XVIII — A Recrudescence of Divine Right
  96. Chapter XIX — The Battle-Field at Night
  97. Book Second — The Ship Orion
  98. Chapter I — Number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430
  99. Chapter II — In Which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, Which Are of the: Devil’s Composition, Possibly
  100. Chapter III — The Ankle-Chain Must Have Undergone a Certain Preparatory: Manipulation to Be Thus Broken with a Blow from a Hammer
  101. Book Third — Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman
  102. Chapter I — The Water Question at Montfermeil
  103. Chapter II — Two Complete Portraits
  104. Chapter III — Men Must Have Wine, and Horses Must Have Water
  105. Chapter IV — Entrance on the Scene of a Doll
  106. Chapter V — The Little One All Alone
  107. Chapter VI — Which Possibly Proves Boulatruelle’s Intelligence
  108. Chapter VII — Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark
  109. Chapter VIII — The Unpleasantness of Receiving into One’s House a Poor: Man Who May Be a Rich Man
  110. Chapter IX — ThÉNardier and His ManŒUvres
  111. Chapter X — He Who Seeks to Better Himself May Render His Situation Worse
  112. Chapter XI — Number 9,430 Reappears, and Cosette Wins It in the Lottery
  113. Book Fourth — The Gorbeau Hovel
  114. Chapter I — Master Gorbeau
  115. Chapter II — A Nest for Owl and a Warbler
  116. Chapter III — Two Misfortunes Make One Piece of Good Fortune
  117. Chapter IV — The Remarks of the Principal Tenant
  118. Chapter V — A Five-Franc Piece Falls on the Ground and Produces a Tumult
  119. Book Fifth — For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack
  120. Chapter I — The Zigzags of Strategy
  121. Chapter II — It Is Lucky That the Pont D’austerlitz Bears Carriages
  122. Chapter III — To Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727
  123. Chapter IV — The Gropings of Flight
  124. Chapter V — Which Would Be Impossible with Gas Lanterns
  125. Chapter VI — The Beginning of an Enigma
  126. Chapter VII — Continuation of the Enigma
  127. Chapter VIII — The Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious
  128. Chapter IX — The Man with the Bell
  129. Chapter X — Which Explains How Javert Got on the Scent
  130. Book Sixth — Le Petit-Picpus
  131. Chapter I — Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus
  132. Chapter II — The Obedience of Martin Verga
  133. Chapter III — Austerities
  134. Chapter IV — Gayeties
  135. Chapter V — Distractions
  136. Chapter VI — The Little Convent
  137. Chapter VII — Some Silhouettes of This Darkness
  138. Chapter VIII — Post Corda Lapides
  139. Chapter IX — A Century Under a Guimpe
  140. Chapter X — Origin of the Perpetual Adoration
  141. Chapter XI — End of the Petit-Picpus
  142. Book Seventh — Parenthesis
  143. Chapter I — The Convent As an Abstract Idea
  144. Chapter II — The Convent As an Historical Fact
  145. Chapter III — On What Conditions One Can Respect the Past
  146. Chapter IV — The Convent from the Point of View of Principles
  147. Chapter V — Prayer
  148. Chapter VI — The Absolute Goodness of Prayer
  149. Chapter VII — Precautions to Be Observed in Blame
  150. Chapter VIII — Faith, Law
  151. Book Eighth — Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them
  152. Chapter I — Which Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent
  153. Chapter II — Fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty
  154. Chapter III — Mother Innocente
  155. Chapter IV — In Which Jean Valjean Has Quite the Air of Having Read: Austin Castillejo
  156. Chapter V — It Is Not Necessary to Be Drunk in Order to Be Immortal
  157. Chapter VI — Between Four Planks
  158. Chapter VII — In Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don’t Lose: The Card
  159. Chapter VIII — A Successful Interrogatory
  160. Chapter IX — Cloistered
  161. Chapter II — Some of His Particular Characteristics
  162. Chapter III — He Is Agreeable
  163. Chapter IV — He May Be of Use
  164. Chapter V — His Frontiers
  165. Chapter VI — A Bit of History
  166. Chapter VII — The Gamin Should Have His Place in the Classifications of: India
  167. Chapter VIII — In Which the Reader Will Find a Charming Saying of the: Last King
  168. Chapter IX — The Old Soul of Gaul
  169. Chapter X — Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo
  170. Chapter XI — To Scoff, to Reign
  171. Chapter XII — The Future Latent in the People
  172. Chapter XIII — Little Gavroche
  173. Book Second — The Great Bourgeois
  174. Chapter I — Ninety Years and Thirty-Two Teeth
  175. Chapter II — Like Master, Like House
  176. Chapter III — Luc-Esprit
  177. Chapter IV — A Centenarian Aspirant
  178. Chapter V — Basque and Nicolette
  179. Chapter VI — In Which Magnon and Her Two Children Are Seen
  180. Chapter VII — Rule: Receive No One Except in the Evening
  181. Chapter VIII — Two Do Not Make a Pair
  182. Book Third — The Grandfather and the Grandson
  183. Chapter I — An Ancient Salon
  184. Chapter II — One of the Red Spectres of That Epoch
  185. Chapter III — Requiescant
  186. Chapter IV — End of the Brigand
  187. Chapter V — The Utility of Going to Mass, in Order to Become a: Revolutionist
  188. Chapter VI — The Consequences of Having Met a Warden
  189. Chapter VII — Some Petticoat
  190. Chapter VIII — Marble Against Granite
  191. Book Fourth — The Friends of the a B C
  192. Chapter I — A Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic
  193. Chapter II — Blondeau’s Funeral Oration by Bossuet
  194. Chapter III — Marius’ Astonishments
  195. Chapter IV — The Back Room of the CafÉ Musain
  196. Chapter V — Enlargement of Horizon
  197. Chapter VI — Res Angusta
  198. Book Fifth — The Excellence of Misfortune
  199. Chapter I — Marius Indigent
  200. Chapter II — Marius Poor
  201. Chapter III — Marius Grown Up
  202. Chapter IV — M: Mabeuf
  203. Chapter V — Poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery
  204. Chapter VI — The Substitute
  205. Book Sixth — The Conjunction of Two Stars
  206. Chapter I — The Sobriquet: Mode of Formation of Family Names
  207. Chapter II — Lux Facta Est
  208. Chapter III — Effect of the Spring
  209. Chapter IV — Beginning of a Great Malady
  210. Chapter V — Divers Claps of Thunder Fall on Ma’am Bougon
  211. Chapter VI — Taken Prisoner
  212. Chapter VII — Adventures of the Letter U Delivered Over to Conjectures
  213. Chapter VIII — The Veterans Themselves Can Be Happy
  214. Chapter IX — Eclipse
  215. Book Seventh — Patron Minette
  216. Chapter I — Mines and Miners
  217. Chapter II — The Lowest Depths
  218. Chapter III — Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse
  219. Chapter IV — Composition of the Troupe
  220. Book Eighth — The Wicked Poor Man
  221. Chapter I — Marius, While Seeking a Girl in a Bonnet, Encounters a Man in: A Cap
  222. Chapter II — Treasure Trove
  223. Chapter III — Quadrifrons
  224. Chapter IV — A Rose in Misery
  225. Chapter V — A Providential Peep-Hole
  226. Chapter VI — The Wild Man in His Lair
  227. Chapter VII — Strategy and Tactics
  228. Chapter VIII — The Ray of Light in the Hovel
  229. Chapter IX — Jondrette Comes Near Weeping
  230. Chapter X — Tariff of Licensed Cabs: Two Francs an Hour
  231. Chapter XI — Offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness
  232. Chapter XII — The Use Made of M. Leblanc’s Five-Franc Piece
  233. Chapter XIII — Solus Cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabuntur Orare: Pater Noster
  234. Chapter XIV — In Which a Police Agent Bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer
  235. Chapter XV — Jondrette Makes His Purchases
  236. Chapter XVI — In Which Will Be Found the Words to an English Air Which: Was in Fashion in 1832
  237. Chapter XVII — The Use Made of Marius’ Five-Franc Piece
  238. Chapter XVIII — Marius’ Two Chairs Form a Vis-a-Vis
  239. Chapter XIX — Occupying One’s Self with Obscure Depths
  240. Chapter XX — The Trap
  241. Chapter XXI — One Should Always Begin by Arresting the Victims
  242. Chapter XXII — The Little One Who Was Crying in Volume Two
  243. Chapter II — Badly Sewed
  244. Chapter III — Louis Philippe
  245. Chapter IV — Cracks Beneath the Foundation
  246. Chapter V — Facts Whence History Springs and Which History Ignores
  247. Chapter VI — Enjolras and His Lieutenants
  248. Book Second — ÉPonine
  249. Chapter I — The Lark’s Meadow
  250. Chapter II — Embryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons
  251. Chapter III — Apparition to Father Mabeuf
  252. Chapter IV — An Apparition to Marius
  253. Book Third — The House in the Rue Plumet
  254. Chapter I — The House with a Secret
  255. Chapter II — Jean Valjean As a National Guard
  256. Chapter III — Foliis Ac Frondibus
  257. Chapter IV — Change of Gate
  258. Chapter V — The Rose Perceives That It Is an Engine of War
  259. Chapter VI — The Battle Begun
  260. Chapter VII — To One Sadness Oppose a Sadness and a Half
  261. Chapter VIII — The Chain-Gang
  262. Book Fourth — Succor from Below May Turn Out to Be Succor from on High
  263. Chapter I — A Wound Without, Healing Within
  264. Chapter II — Mother Plutarque Finds No Difficulty in Explaining a: Phenomenon
  265. Book Fifth — The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning
  266. Chapter I — Solitude and the Barracks Combined
  267. Chapter II — Cosette’s Apprehensions
  268. Chapter III — Enriched with Commentaries by Toussaint
  269. Chapter IV — A Heart Beneath a Stone
  270. Chapter V — Cosette After the Letter
  271. Chapter VI — Old People Are Made to Go Out Opportunely
  272. Book Sixth — Little Gavroche
  273. Chapter I — The Malicious Playfulness of the Wind
  274. Chapter II — In Which Little Gavroche Extracts Profit from Napoleon the: Great
  275. Chapter III — The Vicissitudes of Flight: This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force: —
  276. Book Seventh — Slang
  277. Chapter I — Origin
  278. Chapter II — Roots
  279. Chapter III — Slang Which Weeps and Slang Which Laughs
  280. Chapter IV — The Two Duties: To Watch and to Hope
  281. Book Eighth — Enchantments and Desolations
  282. Chapter I — Full Light
  283. Chapter II — The Bewilderment of Perfect Happiness
  284. Chapter III — The Beginning of Shadow
  285. Chapter IV — A Cab Runs in English and Barks in Slang
  286. Chapter V — Things of the Night
  287. Chapter VI — Marius Becomes Practical Once More to the Extent of Giving: Cosette His Address
  288. Chapter VII — The Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each: Other
  289. Book Ninth — Whither Are They Going?
  290. Chapter I — Jean Valjean
  291. Chapter II — Marius
  292. Chapter III — M: Mabeuf
  293. Book Tenth — The 5Th of June, 1832
  294. Chapter I — The Surface of the Question
  295. Chapter II — The Root of the Matter
  296. Chapter III — A Burial; an Occasion to Be Born Again
  297. Chapter IV — The Ebullitions of Former Days
  298. Chapter V — Originality of Paris
  299. Chapter I — Some Explanations with Regard to the Origin of Gavroche’s: Poetry. The Influence of an Academician on This Poetry
  300. Chapter II — Gavroche on the March
  301. Chapter III — Just Indignation of a Hair-Dresser
  302. Chapter IV — The Child Is Amazed at the Old Man
  303. Chapter V — The Old Man
  304. Chapter VI — Recruits
  305. Chapter I — History of Corinthe from Its Foundation
  306. Chapter II — Preliminary Gayeties
  307. Chapter III — Night Begins to Descend Upon Grantaire
  308. Chapter IV — An Attempt to Console the Widow Hucheloup: Bahorel, in ecstasies over the barricade, shouted: —
  309. Chapter V — Preparations
  310. Chapter VI — Waiting
  311. Chapter VII — The Man Recruited in the Rue Des Billettes
  312. Chapter VIII — Many Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain Le: Cabuc Whose Name May Not Have Been Le Cabuc
  313. Chapter I — From the Rue Plumet to the Quartier Saint-Denis
  314. Chapter II — An Owl’s View of Paris
  315. Chapter III — The Extreme Edge
  316. Chapter I — The Flag: Act First
  317. Chapter II — The Flag: Act Second
  318. Chapter III — Gavroche Would Have Done Better to Accept Enjolras’ Carbine
  319. Chapter IV — The Barrel of Powder
  320. Chapter V — End of the Verses of Jean Prouvaire
  321. Chapter VI — The Agony of Death After the Agony of Life
  322. Chapter VII — Gavroche As a Profound Calculator of Distances
  323. Chapter I — A Drinker Is a Babbler
  324. Chapter II — The Street Urchin an Enemy of Light
  325. Chapter III — While Cosette and Toussaint Are Asleep
  326. Chapter IV — Gavroche’s Excess of Zeal
  327. Book First — The War Between Four Walls
  328. Chapter I — The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla of: The Faubourg Du Temple
  329. Chapter II — What Is to Be Done in the Abyss If One Does Not Converse
  330. Chapter III — Light and Shadow
  331. Chapter IV — Minus Five, Plus One
  332. Chapter V — The Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a Barricade
  333. Chapter VI — Marius Haggard, Javert Laconic
  334. Chapter VII — The Situation Becomes Aggravated
  335. Chapter VIII — The Artillery-Men Compel People to Take Them Seriously
  336. Chapter IX — Employment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That: Infallible Marksmanship Which Influenced the Condemnation of 1796
  337. Chapter X — Dawn
  338. Chapter XI — The Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One
  339. Chapter XII — Disorder a Partisan of Order: Bossuet muttered in Combeferre’s ear
  340. Chapter XIII — Passing Gleams
  341. Chapter XIV — Wherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras’ Mistress
  342. Chapter XV — Gavroche Outside
  343. Chapter XVI — How from a Brother One Becomes a Father
  344. Chapter XVII — Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat
  345. Chapter XVIII — The Vulture Become Prey
  346. Chapter XIX — Jean Valjean Takes His Revenge
  347. Chapter XX — The Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the: Wrong
  348. Chapter XXI — The Heroes
  349. Chapter XXII — Foot to Foot
  350. Chapter XXIII — Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk
  351. Chapter XXIV — Prisoner
  352. Book Second — The Intestine of the Leviathan
  353. Chapter I — The Land Impoverished by the Sea
  354. Chapter II — Ancient History of the Sewer
  355. Chapter III — Bruneseau
  356. Chapter IV
  357. Chapter V — Present Progress
  358. Chapter VI — Future Progress
  359. Book Third — Mud But the Soul
  360. Chapter I — The Sewer and Its Surprises
  361. Chapter II — Explanation
  362. Chapter III — The “Spun” Man
  363. Chapter IV — He Also Bears His Cross
  364. Chapter V — In the Case of Sand As in That of Woman, There Is a Fineness: Which Is Treacherous
  365. Chapter VI — The Fontis
  366. Chapter VII — One Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is: Disembarking
  367. Chapter VIII — The Torn Coat-Tail
  368. Chapter IX — Marius Produces on Some One Who Is a Judge of the Matter: The Effect of Being Dead
  369. Chapter X — Return of the Son Who Was Prodigal of His Life
  370. Chapter XI — Concussion in the Absolute
  371. Chapter XII — The Grandfather
  372. Book Fourth — Javert Derailed
  373. Chapter I: Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l’Homme Armé
  374. Book Fifth — Grandson and Grandfather
  375. Chapter I — In Which the Tree with the Zinc Plaster Appears Again
  376. Chapter II — Marius, Emerging from Civil War, Makes Ready for Domestic: War
  377. Chapter III — Marius Attacked
  378. Chapter V — Deposit Your Money in a Forest Rather Than with a Notary
  379. Chapter VI — The Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own: Fashion, to Render Cosette Happy
  380. Chapter VII — The Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happiness
  381. Chapter VIII — Two Men Impossible to Find
  382. Book Sixth — The Sleepless Night
  383. Chapter I — The 16Th of February, 1833
  384. Chapter II — Jean Valjean Still Wears His Arm in a Sling
  385. Chapter III — The Inseparable
  386. Chapter IV — The Immortal Liver 68
  387. Book Seventh — The Last Draught from the Cup
  388. Chapter I — The Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven
  389. Chapter II — The Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Contain
  390. Book Eighth — Fading Away of the Twilight
  391. Chapter I — The Lower Chamber
  392. Chapter II — Another Step Backwards
  393. Chapter III — They Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumet
  394. Chapter IV — Attraction and Extinction
  395. Book Ninth — Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn
  396. Chapter I — Pity for the Unhappy, But Indulgence for the Happy
  397. Chapter II — Last Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil
  398. Chapter III — A Pen Is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent’s: Cart
  399. Chapter IV — A Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whitening
  400. Chapter V — A Night Behind Which There Is Day
  401. Chapter VI — The Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces

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