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Les Misérables

Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood

368 chapters and parts · about 47 hours to read

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What the book is about

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

Chapters

  1. Chapter VIThe Grass Covers and the Rain Effacesabout 1 minute
  2. Prefaceabout 1 minute
  3. Book First: A Just Man · Chapter IM. Myrielabout 5 minutes
  4. Book First: A Just Man · Chapter IIM. Myriel Becomes M. Welcomeabout 10 minutes
  5. Book First: A Just Man · Chapter IIIA Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishopabout 4 minutes
  6. Book First: A Just Man · Chapter IVWorks Corresponding to Wordsabout 15 minutes
  7. Book First: A Just Man · Chapter VMonseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Longabout 5 minutes
  8. Book First: A Just Man · Chapter VIWho Guarded His House for Himabout 11 minutes
  9. Book First: A Just Man · Chapter VIICravatteabout 6 minutes
  10. Book First: A Just Man · Chapter VIIIPhilosophy After Drinkingabout 7 minutes
  11. Book First: A Just Man · Chapter IXThe Brother as Depicted by the Sisterabout 7 minutes
  12. Book First: A Just Man · Chapter XThe Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Lightabout 23 minutes
  13. Book First: A Just Man · Chapter XIA Restrictionabout 8 minutes
  14. Book First: A Just Man · Chapter XIIThe Solitude of Monseigneur Welcomeabout 6 minutes
  15. Book First: A Just Man · Chapter XIIIWhat He Believedabout 8 minutes
  16. Book First: A Just Man · Chapter XIVWhat He Thoughtabout 5 minutes
  17. Book Second: The Fall · Chapter IThe Evening of a Day of Walkingabout 22 minutes
  18. Book Second: The Fall · Chapter IIPrudence Counselled to Wisdomabout 7 minutes
  19. Book Second: The Fall · Chapter IIIThe Heroism of Passive Obedienceabout 10 minutes
  20. Book Second: The Fall · Chapter IVDetails Concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlierabout 7 minutes
  21. Book Second: The Fall · Chapter VTranquillityabout 3 minutes
  22. Book Second: The Fall · Chapter VIJean Valjeanabout 11 minutes
  23. Book Second: The Fall · Chapter VIIThe Interior of Despairabout 15 minutes
  24. Book Second: The Fall · Chapter VIIIBillows and Shadowsabout 4 minutes
  25. Book Second: The Fall · Chapter IXNew Troublesabout 2 minutes
  26. Book Second: The Fall · Chapter XThe Man Arousedabout 6 minutes
  27. Book Second: The Fall · Chapter XIWhat He Doesabout 7 minutes
  28. Book Second: The Fall · Chapter XIIThe Bishop Worksabout 6 minutes
  29. Book Second: The Fall · Chapter XIIILittle Gervaisabout 17 minutes
  30. Book Third: In the Year 1817 · Chapter IThe Year 1817about 11 minutes
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  1. Book Third: In the Year 1817 · Chapter IIA Double Quartetteabout 8 minutes
  2. Book Third: In the Year 1817 · Chapter IIIFour and Fourabout 7 minutes
  3. Book Third: In the Year 1817 · Chapter IVTholomyès Is So Merry That He Sings a Spanish Dittyabout 4 minutes
  4. Book Third: In the Year 1817 · Chapter VAt Bombarda’sabout 5 minutes
  5. Book Third: In the Year 1817 · Chapter VIA Chapter in Which They Adore Each Otherabout 3 minutes
  6. Book Third: In the Year 1817 · Chapter VIIThe Wisdom of Tholomyèsabout 10 minutes
  7. Book Third: In the Year 1817 · Chapter VIIIThe Death of a Horseabout 4 minutes
  8. Book Third: In the Year 1817 · Chapter IXA Merry End to Mirthabout 5 minutes
  9. Book Fourth: To Confide Is Sometimes to Deliver into a Person’s Power · Chapter IOne Mother Meets Another Motherabout 17 minutes
  10. Book Fourth: To Confide Is Sometimes to Deliver into a Person’s Power · Chapter IIFirst Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figuresabout 4 minutes
  11. Book Fourth: To Confide Is Sometimes to Deliver into a Person’s Power · Chapter IIIThe Larkabout 5 minutes
  12. Book Fifth: The Descent · Chapter IThe History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinketsabout 3 minutes
  13. Book Fifth: The Descent · Chapter IIMadeleineabout 7 minutes
  14. Book Fifth: The Descent · Chapter IIISums Deposited with Laffitteabout 6 minutes
  15. Book Fifth: The Descent · Chapter IVM. Madeleine in Mourningabout 4 minutes
  16. Book Fifth: The Descent · Chapter VVague Flashes on the Horizonabout 10 minutes
  17. Book Fifth: The Descent · Chapter VIFather Faucheleventabout 5 minutes
  18. Book Fifth: The Descent · Chapter VIIFauchelevent Becomes a Gardener in Parisabout 2 minutes
  19. Book Fifth: The Descent · Chapter VIIIMadame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs on Moralityabout 5 minutes
  20. Book Fifth: The Descent · Chapter IXMadame Victurnien’s Successabout 5 minutes
  21. Book Fifth: The Descent · Chapter XResult of the Successabout 9 minutes
  22. Book Fifth: The Descent · Chapter XIChristus Nos Liberavitabout 2 minutes
  23. Book Fifth: The Descent · Chapter XIIM. Bamatabois’s Inactivityabout 5 minutes
  24. Book Fifth: The Descent · Chapter XIIIThe Solution of Some Questions Connected with the Municipal Policeabout 19 minutes
  25. Book Sixth: Javert · Chapter IThe Beginning of Reposeabout 6 minutes
  26. Book Sixth: Javert · Chapter IIHow Jean May Become Champabout 16 minutes
  27. Book Seventh: The Champmathieu Affair · Chapter ISister Simpliceabout 6 minutes
  28. Book Seventh: The Champmathieu Affair · Chapter IIThe Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaireabout 8 minutes
  29. Book Seventh: The Champmathieu Affair · Chapter IIIA Tempest in a Skullabout 39 minutes
  30. Book Seventh: The Champmathieu Affair · Chapter IVForms Assumed by Suffering During Sleepabout 6 minutes
  31. Book Seventh: The Champmathieu Affair · Chapter VHindrancesabout 20 minutes
  32. Book Seventh: The Champmathieu Affair · Chapter VISister Simplice Put to the Proofabout 12 minutes
  33. Book Seventh: The Champmathieu Affair · Chapter VIIThe Traveller on His Arrival Takes Precautions for Departureabout 8 minutes
  34. Book Seventh: The Champmathieu Affair · Chapter VIIIAn Entrance by Favorabout 6 minutes
  35. Book Seventh: The Champmathieu Affair · Chapter IXA Place Where Convictions Are in Process of Formationabout 13 minutes
  36. Book Seventh: The Champmathieu Affair · Chapter XThe System of Denialsabout 14 minutes
  37. Book Seventh: The Champmathieu Affair · Chapter XIChampmathieu More and More Astonishedabout 8 minutes
  38. Book Eighth: A Counter-Blow · Chapter IIn What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hairabout 5 minutes
  39. Book Eighth: A Counter-Blow · Chapter IIFantine Happyabout 7 minutes
  40. Book Eighth: A Counter-Blow · Chapter IIIJavert Satisfiedabout 7 minutes
  41. Book Eighth: A Counter-Blow · Chapter IVAuthority Reasserts Its Rightsabout 7 minutes
  42. Book Eighth: A Counter-Blow · Chapter VA Suitable Tombabout 10 minutes
  43. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter IWhat Is Met with on the Way from Nivellesabout 3 minutes
  44. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter IIHougomontabout 13 minutes
  45. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter IIIThe Eighteenth of June, 1815about 5 minutes
  46. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter IVAabout 4 minutes
  47. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter VThe Quid Obscurum of Battlesabout 6 minutes
  48. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter VIFour O’clock in the Afternoonabout 5 minutes
  49. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter VIINapoleon in a Good Humorabout 11 minutes
  50. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter VIIIThe Emperor Puts a Question to the Guide Lacosteabout 4 minutes
  51. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter IXThe Unexpectedabout 7 minutes
  52. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter XThe Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jeanabout 9 minutes
  53. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter XIA Bad Guide to Napoleon; a Good Guide to Bülowabout 3 minutes
  54. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter XIIThe Guardabout 3 minutes
  55. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter XIIIThe Catastropheabout 4 minutes
  56. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter XIVThe Last Squareabout 2 minutes
  57. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter XVCambronneabout 4 minutes
  58. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter XVIQuot Libras in Duce?about 9 minutes
  59. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter XVIIIs Waterloo to Be Considered Good?about 3 minutes
  60. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter XVIIIA Recrudescence of Divine Rightabout 5 minutes
  61. Book First: Waterloo · Chapter XIXThe Battle-Field at Nightabout 12 minutes
  62. Book Second: The Ship Orion · Chapter INumber 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430about 5 minutes
  63. Book Second: The Ship Orion · Chapter IIIn Which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, Which Are of the Devil’s Composition, Possiblyabout 9 minutes
  64. Book Second: The Ship Orion · Chapter IIIThe Ankle-Chain Must Have Undergone a Certain Preparatory Manipulation to Be Thus Broken with a Blow from a Hammerabout 16 minutes
  65. Book Third: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman · Chapter IThe Water Question at Montfermeilabout 7 minutes
  66. Book Third: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman · Chapter IITwo Complete Portraitsabout 10 minutes
  67. Book Third: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman · Chapter IIIMen Must Have Wine, and Horses Must Have Waterabout 4 minutes
  68. Book Third: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman · Chapter IVEntrance on the Scene of a Dollabout 3 minutes
  69. Book Third: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman · Chapter VThe Little One All Aloneabout 11 minutes
  70. Book Third: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman · Chapter VIWhich Possibly Proves Boulatruelle’s Intelligenceabout 10 minutes
  71. Book Third: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman · Chapter VIICosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Darkabout 4 minutes
  72. Book Third: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman · Chapter VIIIThe Unpleasantness of Receiving into One’s House a Poor Man Who May Be a Rich Manabout 32 minutes
  73. Book Third: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman · Chapter IXThénardier and His Manœuvresabout 14 minutes
  74. Book Third: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman · Chapter XHe Who Seeks to Better Himself May Render His Situation Worseabout 9 minutes
  75. Book Third: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman · Chapter XINumber 9,430 Reappears, and Cosette Wins It in the Lotteryabout 3 minutes
  76. Book Fourth: The Gorbeau Hovel · Chapter IMaster Gorbeauabout 12 minutes
  77. Book Fourth: The Gorbeau Hovel · Chapter IIA Nest for Owl and a Warblerabout 3 minutes
  78. Book Fourth: The Gorbeau Hovel · Chapter IIITwo Misfortunes Make One Piece of Good Fortuneabout 8 minutes
  79. Book Fourth: The Gorbeau Hovel · Chapter IVThe Remarks of the Principal Tenantabout 4 minutes
  80. Book Fourth: The Gorbeau Hovel · Chapter VA Five-Franc Piece Falls on the Ground and Produces a Tumultabout 6 minutes
  81. Book Fifth: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack · Chapter IThe Zigzags of Strategyabout 7 minutes
  82. Book Fifth: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack · Chapter IIIt Is Lucky That the Pont D’austerlitz Bears Carriagesabout 3 minutes
  83. Book Fifth: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack · Chapter IIITo Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727about 6 minutes
  84. Book Fifth: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack · Chapter IVThe Gropings of Flightabout 5 minutes
  85. Book Fifth: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack · Chapter VWhich Would Be Impossible with Gas Lanternsabout 7 minutes
  86. Book Fifth: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack · Chapter VIThe Beginning of an Enigmaabout 4 minutes
  87. Book Fifth: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack · Chapter VIIContinuation of the Enigmaabout 4 minutes
  88. Book Fifth: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack · Chapter VIIIThe Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysteriousabout 3 minutes
  89. Book Fifth: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack · Chapter IXThe Man with the Bellabout 7 minutes
  90. Book Fifth: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack · Chapter XWhich Explains How Javert Got on the Scentabout 17 minutes
  91. Book Sixth: Le Petit-Picpus · Chapter INumber 62 Rue Petit-Picpusabout 7 minutes
  92. Book Sixth: Le Petit-Picpus · Chapter IIThe Obedience of Martin Vergaabout 13 minutes
  93. Book Sixth: Le Petit-Picpus · Chapter IIIAusteritiesabout 3 minutes
  94. Book Sixth: Le Petit-Picpus · Chapter IVGayetiesabout 6 minutes
  95. Book Sixth: Le Petit-Picpus · Chapter VDistractionsabout 10 minutes
  96. Book Sixth: Le Petit-Picpus · Chapter VIThe Little Conventabout 5 minutes
  97. Book Sixth: Le Petit-Picpus · Chapter VIISome Silhouettes of This Darknessabout 4 minutes
  98. Book Sixth: Le Petit-Picpus · Chapter VIIIPost Corda Lapidesabout 3 minutes
  99. Book Sixth: Le Petit-Picpus · Chapter IXA Century Under a Guimpeabout 4 minutes
  100. Book Sixth: Le Petit-Picpus · Chapter XOrigin of the Perpetual Adorationabout 3 minutes
  101. Book Sixth: Le Petit-Picpus · Chapter XIEnd of the Petit-Picpusabout 3 minutes
  102. Book Seventh: Parenthesis · Chapter IThe Convent as an Abstract Ideaabout 1 minute
  103. Book Seventh: Parenthesis · Chapter IIThe Convent as an Historical Factabout 5 minutes
  104. Book Seventh: Parenthesis · Chapter IIIOn What Conditions One Can Respect the Pastabout 4 minutes
  105. Book Seventh: Parenthesis · Chapter IVThe Convent from the Point of View of Principlesabout 3 minutes
  106. Book Seventh: Parenthesis · Chapter VPrayerabout 2 minutes
  107. Book Seventh: Parenthesis · Chapter VIThe Absolute Goodness of Prayerabout 4 minutes
  108. Book Seventh: Parenthesis · Chapter VIIPrecautions to Be Observed in Blameabout 1 minute
  109. Book Seventh: Parenthesis · Chapter VIIIFaith, Lawabout 4 minutes
  110. Book Eighth: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them · Chapter IWhich Treats of the Manner of Entering a Conventabout 15 minutes
  111. Book Eighth: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them · Chapter IIFauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficultyabout 4 minutes
  112. Book Eighth: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them · Chapter IIIMother Innocenteabout 16 minutes
  113. Book Eighth: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them · Chapter IVIn Which Jean Valjean Has Quite the Air of Having Read Austin Castillejoabout 10 minutes
  114. Book Eighth: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them · Chapter VIt Is Not Necessary to Be Drunk in Order to Be Immortalabout 10 minutes
  115. Book Eighth: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them · Chapter VIBetween Four Planksabout 3 minutes
  116. Book Eighth: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them · Chapter VIIIn Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don’t Lose the Cardabout 13 minutes
  117. Book Eighth: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them · Chapter VIIIA Successful Interrogatoryabout 5 minutes
  118. Book Eighth: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them · Chapter IXCloisteredabout 13 minutes
  119. Book First: Paris Studied in Its Atom · Chapter IParvulusabout 1 minute
  120. Book First: Paris Studied in Its Atom · Chapter IISome of His Particular Characteristicsabout 2 minutes
  121. Book First: Paris Studied in Its Atom · Chapter IIIHe Is Agreeableabout 2 minutes
  122. Book First: Paris Studied in Its Atom · Chapter IVHe May Be of Useabout 1 minute
  123. Book First: Paris Studied in Its Atom · Chapter VHis Frontiersabout 4 minutes
  124. Book First: Paris Studied in Its Atom · Chapter VIA Bit of Historyabout 4 minutes
  125. Book First: Paris Studied in Its Atom · Chapter VIIThe Gamin Should Have His Place in the Classifications of Indiaabout 4 minutes
  126. Book First: Paris Studied in Its Atom · Chapter VIIIIn Which the Reader Will Find a Charming Saying of the Last Kingabout 3 minutes
  127. Book First: Paris Studied in Its Atom · Chapter IXThe Old Soul of Gaulabout 1 minute
  128. Book First: Paris Studied in Its Atom · Chapter XEcce Paris, Ecce Homoabout 5 minutes
  129. Book First: Paris Studied in Its Atom · Chapter XITo Scoff, to Reignabout 4 minutes
  130. Book First: Paris Studied in Its Atom · Chapter XIIThe Future Latent in the Peopleabout 2 minutes
  131. Book First: Paris Studied in Its Atom · Chapter XIIILittle Gavrocheabout 4 minutes
  132. Book Second: The Great Bourgeois · Chapter INinety Years and Thirty-Two Teethabout 3 minutes
  133. Book Second: The Great Bourgeois · Chapter IILike Master, Like Houseabout 2 minutes
  134. Book Second: The Great Bourgeois · Chapter IIILuc-Espritabout 2 minutes
  135. Book Second: The Great Bourgeois · Chapter IVA Centenarian Aspirantabout 2 minutes
  136. Book Second: The Great Bourgeois · Chapter VBasque and Nicoletteabout 2 minutes
  137. Book Second: The Great Bourgeois · Chapter VIIn Which Magnon and Her Two Children Are Seenabout 4 minutes
  138. Book Second: The Great Bourgeois · Chapter VIIRule: Receive No One Except in the Eveningabout 1 minute
  139. Book Second: The Great Bourgeois · Chapter VIIITwo Do Not Make a Pairabout 4 minutes
  140. Book Third: The Grandfather and the Grandson · Chapter IAn Ancient Salonabout 6 minutes
  141. Book Third: The Grandfather and the Grandson · Chapter IIOne of the Red Spectres of That Epochabout 13 minutes
  142. Book Third: The Grandfather and the Grandson · Chapter IIIRequiescantabout 15 minutes
  143. Book Third: The Grandfather and the Grandson · Chapter IVEnd of the Brigandabout 6 minutes
  144. Book Third: The Grandfather and the Grandson · Chapter VThe Utility of Going to Mass, in Order to Become a Revolutionistabout 3 minutes
  145. Book Third: The Grandfather and the Grandson · Chapter VIThe Consequences of Having Met a Wardenabout 13 minutes
  146. Book Third: The Grandfather and the Grandson · Chapter VIISome Petticoatabout 8 minutes
  147. Book Third: The Grandfather and the Grandson · Chapter VIIIMarble Against Graniteabout 10 minutes
  148. Book Fourth: The Friends of the a B C · Chapter IA Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historicabout 26 minutes
  149. Book Fourth: The Friends of the a B C · Chapter IIBlondeau’s Funeral Oration by Bossuetabout 6 minutes
  150. Book Fourth: The Friends of the a B C · Chapter IIIMarius’ Astonishmentsabout 4 minutes
  151. Book Fourth: The Friends of the a B C · Chapter IVThe Back Room of the Café Musainabout 14 minutes
  152. Book Fourth: The Friends of the a B C · Chapter VEnlargement of Horizonabout 7 minutes
  153. Book Fourth: The Friends of the a B C · Chapter VIRes Angustaabout 4 minutes
  154. Book Fifth: The Excellence of Misfortune · Chapter IMarius Indigentabout 4 minutes
  155. Book Fifth: The Excellence of Misfortune · Chapter IIMarius Poorabout 6 minutes
  156. Book Fifth: The Excellence of Misfortune · Chapter IIIMarius Grown Upabout 10 minutes
  157. Book Fifth: The Excellence of Misfortune · Chapter IVM. Mabeufabout 9 minutes
  158. Book Fifth: The Excellence of Misfortune · Chapter VPoverty a Good Neighbor for Miseryabout 4 minutes
  159. Book Fifth: The Excellence of Misfortune · Chapter VIThe Substituteabout 8 minutes
  160. Book Sixth: The Conjunction of Two Stars · Chapter IThe Sobriquet: Mode of Formation of Family Namesabout 6 minutes
  161. Book Sixth: The Conjunction of Two Stars · Chapter IILux Facta Estabout 4 minutes
  162. Book Sixth: The Conjunction of Two Stars · Chapter IIIEffect of the Springabout 2 minutes
  163. Book Sixth: The Conjunction of Two Stars · Chapter IVBeginning of a Great Maladyabout 6 minutes
  164. Book Sixth: The Conjunction of Two Stars · Chapter VDivers Claps of Thunder Fall on Ma’am Bougonabout 2 minutes
  165. Book Sixth: The Conjunction of Two Stars · Chapter VITaken Prisonerabout 5 minutes
  166. Book Sixth: The Conjunction of Two Stars · Chapter VIIAdventures of the Letter U Delivered Over to Conjecturesabout 3 minutes
  167. Book Sixth: The Conjunction of Two Stars · Chapter VIIIThe Veterans Themselves Can Be Happyabout 3 minutes
  168. Book Sixth: The Conjunction of Two Stars · Chapter IXEclipseabout 4 minutes
  169. Book Seventh: Patron Minette · Chapter IMines and Minersabout 4 minutes
  170. Book Seventh: Patron Minette · Chapter IIThe Lowest Depthsabout 3 minutes
  171. Book Seventh: Patron Minette · Chapter IIIBabet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasseabout 5 minutes
  172. Book Seventh: Patron Minette · Chapter IVComposition of the Troupeabout 5 minutes
  173. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter IMarius, While Seeking a Girl in a Bonnet, Encounters a Man in a Capabout 3 minutes
  174. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter IITreasure Troveabout 3 minutes
  175. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter IIIQuadrifronsabout 7 minutes
  176. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter IVA Rose in Miseryabout 13 minutes
  177. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter VA Providential Peep-Holeabout 5 minutes
  178. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter VIThe Wild Man in His Lairabout 8 minutes
  179. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter VIIStrategy and Tacticsabout 6 minutes
  180. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter VIIIThe Ray of Light in the Hovelabout 4 minutes
  181. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter IXJondrette Comes Near Weepingabout 7 minutes
  182. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter XTariff of Licensed Cabs: Two Francs an Hourabout 6 minutes
  183. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter XIOffers of Service from Misery to Wretchednessabout 5 minutes
  184. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter XIIThe Use Made of M. Leblanc’s Five-Franc Pieceabout 8 minutes
  185. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter XIIISolus Cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabuntur Orare Pater Nosterabout 5 minutes
  186. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter XIVIn Which a Police Agent Bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyerabout 6 minutes
  187. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter XVJondrette Makes His Purchasesabout 4 minutes
  188. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter XVIIn Which Will Be Found the Words to an English Air Which Was in Fashion in 1832about 6 minutes
  189. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter XVIIThe Use Made of Marius’ Five-Franc Pieceabout 7 minutes
  190. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter XVIIIMarius’ Two Chairs Form a Vis-A-Visabout 3 minutes
  191. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter XIXOccupying One’s Self with Obscure Depthsabout 8 minutes
  192. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter XXThe Trap (part 1 of 2)about 24 minutes
  193. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter XXThe Trap (part 2 of 2)about 22 minutes
  194. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter XXIOne Should Always Begin by Arresting the Victimsabout 6 minutes
  195. Book Eighth: The Wicked Poor Man · Chapter XXIIThe Little One Who Was Crying in Volume Twoabout 3 minutes
  196. Book First: A Few Pages of History · Chapter IWell Cutabout 11 minutes
  197. Book First: A Few Pages of History · Chapter IIBadly Sewedabout 6 minutes
  198. Book First: A Few Pages of History · Chapter IIILouis Philippeabout 14 minutes
  199. Book First: A Few Pages of History · Chapter IVCracks Beneath the Foundationabout 13 minutes
  200. Book First: A Few Pages of History · Chapter VFacts Whence History Springs and Which History Ignoresabout 20 minutes
  201. Book First: A Few Pages of History · Chapter VIEnjolras and His Lieutenantsabout 7 minutes
  202. Book Second: Éponine · Chapter IThe Lark’s Meadowabout 11 minutes
  203. Book Second: Éponine · Chapter IIEmbryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisonsabout 9 minutes
  204. Book Second: Éponine · Chapter IIIApparition to Father Mabeufabout 7 minutes
  205. Book Second: Éponine · Chapter IVAn Apparition to Mariusabout 8 minutes
  206. Book Third: The House in the Rue Plumet · Chapter IThe House with a Secretabout 9 minutes
  207. Book Third: The House in the Rue Plumet · Chapter IIJean Valjean as a National Guardabout 5 minutes
  208. Book Third: The House in the Rue Plumet · Chapter IIIFoliis Ac Frondibusabout 7 minutes
  209. Book Third: The House in the Rue Plumet · Chapter IVChange of Gateabout 9 minutes
  210. Book Third: The House in the Rue Plumet · Chapter VThe Rose Perceives That It Is an Engine of Warabout 9 minutes
  211. Book Third: The House in the Rue Plumet · Chapter VIThe Battle Begunabout 6 minutes
  212. Book Third: The House in the Rue Plumet · Chapter VIITo One Sadness Oppose a Sadness and a Halfabout 10 minutes
  213. Book Third: The House in the Rue Plumet · Chapter VIIIThe Chain-Gangabout 19 minutes
  214. Book Fourth: Succor from Below May Turn Out to Be Succor from on High · Chapter IA Wound Without, Healing Withinabout 4 minutes
  215. Book Fourth: Succor from Below May Turn Out to Be Succor from on High · Chapter IIMother Plutarque Finds No Difficulty in Explaining a Phenomenonabout 15 minutes
  216. Book Fifth: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning · Chapter ISolitude and the Barracks Combinedabout 3 minutes
  217. Book Fifth: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning · Chapter IICosette’s Apprehensionsabout 6 minutes
  218. Book Fifth: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning · Chapter IIIEnriched with Commentaries by Toussaintabout 5 minutes
  219. Book Fifth: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning · Chapter IVA Heart Beneath a Stoneabout 6 minutes
  220. Book Fifth: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning · Chapter VCosette After the Letterabout 5 minutes
  221. Book Fifth: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning · Chapter VIOld People Are Made to Go Out Opportunelyabout 6 minutes
  222. Book Sixth: Little Gavroche · Chapter IThe Malicious Playfulness of the Windabout 7 minutes
  223. Book Sixth: Little Gavroche · Chapter IIIn Which Little Gavroche Extracts Profit from Napoleon the Greatabout 40 minutes
  224. Book Sixth: Little Gavroche · Chapter IIIThe Vicissitudes of Flightabout 24 minutes
  225. Book Seventh: Slang · Chapter IOriginabout 14 minutes
  226. Book Seventh: Slang · Chapter IIRootsabout 16 minutes
  227. Book Seventh: Slang · Chapter IIISlang Which Weeps and Slang Which Laughsabout 8 minutes
  228. Book Seventh: Slang · Chapter IVThe Two Duties: to Watch and to Hopeabout 8 minutes
  229. Book Eighth: Enchantments and Desolations · Chapter IFull Lightabout 11 minutes
  230. Book Eighth: Enchantments and Desolations · Chapter IIThe Bewilderment of Perfect Happinessabout 4 minutes
  231. Book Eighth: Enchantments and Desolations · Chapter IIIThe Beginning of Shadowabout 6 minutes
  232. Book Eighth: Enchantments and Desolations · Chapter IVA Cab Runs in English and Barks in Slangabout 12 minutes
  233. Book Eighth: Enchantments and Desolations · Chapter VThings of the Nightabout 1 minute
  234. Book Eighth: Enchantments and Desolations · Chapter VIMarius Becomes Practical Once More to the Extent of Giving Cosette His Addressabout 10 minutes
  235. Book Eighth: Enchantments and Desolations · Chapter VIIThe Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each Otherabout 23 minutes
  236. Book Ninth: Whither Are They Going? · Chapter IJean Valjeanabout 3 minutes
  237. Book Ninth: Whither Are They Going? · Chapter IIMariusabout 5 minutes
  238. Book Ninth: Whither Are They Going? · Chapter IIIM. Mabeufabout 7 minutes
  239. Book Tenth: The 5th of June, 1832 · Chapter IThe Surface of the Questionabout 6 minutes
  240. Book Tenth: The 5th of June, 1832 · Chapter IIThe Root of the Matterabout 12 minutes
  241. Book Tenth: The 5th of June, 1832 · Chapter IIIA Burial; an Occasion to Be Born Againabout 10 minutes
  242. Book Tenth: The 5th of June, 1832 · Chapter IVThe Ebullitions of Former Daysabout 10 minutes
  243. Book Tenth: The 5th of June, 1832 · Chapter VOriginality of Parisabout 5 minutes
  244. Book Eleventh: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane · Chapter ISome Explanations with Regard to the Origin of Gavroche’s Poetry. the Influence of an Academician on This Poetryabout 4 minutes
  245. Book Eleventh: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane · Chapter IIGavroche on the Marchabout 6 minutes
  246. Book Eleventh: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane · Chapter IIIJust Indignation of a Hair-Dresserabout 3 minutes
  247. Book Eleventh: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane · Chapter IVThe Child Is Amazed at the Old Manabout 3 minutes
  248. Book Eleventh: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane · Chapter VThe Old Manabout 3 minutes
  249. Book Eleventh: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane · Chapter VIRecruitsabout 2 minutes
  250. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter IHistory of Corinthe from Its Foundationabout 10 minutes
  251. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter IIPreliminary Gayetiesabout 18 minutes
  252. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter IIINight Begins to Descend upon Grantaireabout 6 minutes
  253. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter IVAn Attempt to Console the Widow Hucheloupabout 7 minutes
  254. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter VPreparationsabout 4 minutes
  255. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter VIWaitingabout 4 minutes
  256. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter VIIThe Man Recruited in the Rue Des Billettesabout 6 minutes
  257. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter VIIIMany Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain Le Cabuc Whose Name May Not Have Been Le Cabucabout 8 minutes
  258. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter IFrom the Rue Plumet to the Quartier Saint-Denisabout 5 minutes
  259. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter IIAn Owl’s View of Parisabout 5 minutes
  260. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter IIIThe Extreme Edgeabout 12 minutes
  261. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter IThe Flag: Act Firstabout 5 minutes
  262. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter IIThe Flag: Act Secondabout 5 minutes
  263. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter IIIGavroche Would Have Done Better to Accept Enjolras’ Carbineabout 2 minutes
  264. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter IVThe Barrel of Powderabout 5 minutes
  265. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter VEnd of the Verses of Jean Prouvaireabout 3 minutes
  266. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter VIThe Agony of Death After the Agony of Lifeabout 7 minutes
  267. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter VIIGavroche as a Profound Calculator of Distancesabout 7 minutes
  268. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter IA Drinker Is a Babblerabout 17 minutes
  269. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter IIThe Street Urchin an Enemy of Lightabout 7 minutes
  270. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter IIIWhile Cosette and Toussaint Are Asleepabout 3 minutes
  271. Book Twelfth: Corinthe · Chapter IVGavroche’s Excess of Zealabout 8 minutes
  272. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter IThe Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla of the Faubourg Du Templeabout 14 minutes
  273. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter IIWhat Is to Be Done in the Abyss If One Does Not Converseabout 7 minutes
  274. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter IIILight and Shadowabout 3 minutes
  275. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter IVMinus Five, Plus Oneabout 12 minutes
  276. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter VThe Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a Barricadeabout 8 minutes
  277. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter VIMarius Haggard, Javert Laconicabout 4 minutes
  278. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter VIIThe Situation Becomes Aggravatedabout 8 minutes
  279. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter VIIIThe Artillery-Men Compel People to Take Them Seriouslyabout 5 minutes
  280. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter IXEmployment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That Infallible Marksmanship Which Influenced the Condemnation of 1796about 3 minutes
  281. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter XDawnabout 7 minutes
  282. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter XIThe Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No Oneabout 2 minutes
  283. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter XIIDisorder a Partisan of Orderabout 6 minutes
  284. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter XIIIPassing Gleamsabout 4 minutes
  285. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter XIVWherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras’ Mistressabout 4 minutes
  286. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter XVGavroche Outsideabout 5 minutes
  287. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter XVIHow from a Brother One Becomes a Fatherabout 16 minutes
  288. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter XVIIMortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectatabout 3 minutes
  289. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter XVIIIThe Vulture Become Preyabout 7 minutes
  290. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter XIXJean Valjean Takes His Revengeabout 4 minutes
  291. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter XXThe Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the Wrongabout 17 minutes
  292. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter XXIThe Heroesabout 8 minutes
  293. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter XXIIFoot to Footabout 7 minutes
  294. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter XXIIIOrestes Fasting and Pylades Drunkabout 6 minutes
  295. Book First: The War Between Four Walls · Chapter XXIVPrisonerabout 5 minutes
  296. Book Second: The Intestine of the Leviathan · Chapter IThe Land Impoverished by the Seaabout 7 minutes
  297. Book Second: The Intestine of the Leviathan · Chapter IIAncient History of the Sewerabout 6 minutes
  298. Book Second: The Intestine of the Leviathan · Chapter IIIBruneseauabout 6 minutes
  299. Book Second: The Intestine of the Leviathan · Chapter IVabout 7 minutes
  300. Book Second: The Intestine of the Leviathan · Chapter VPresent Progressabout 2 minutes
  301. Book Second: The Intestine of the Leviathan · Chapter VIFuture Progressabout 9 minutes
  302. Book Third: Mud but the Soul · Chapter IThe Sewer and Its Surprisesabout 13 minutes
  303. Book Third: Mud but the Soul · Chapter IIExplanationabout 4 minutes
  304. Book Third: Mud but the Soul · Chapter IIIThe “Spun” Manabout 8 minutes
  305. Book Third: Mud but the Soul · Chapter IVHe Also Bears His Crossabout 7 minutes
  306. Book Third: Mud but the Soul · Chapter VIn the Case of Sand as in That of Woman, There Is a Fineness Which Is Treacherousabout 9 minutes
  307. Book Third: Mud but the Soul · Chapter VIThe Fontisabout 4 minutes
  308. Book Third: Mud but the Soul · Chapter VIIOne Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is Disembarkingabout 5 minutes
  309. Book Third: Mud but the Soul · Chapter VIIIThe Torn Coat-Tailabout 9 minutes
  310. Book Third: Mud but the Soul · Chapter IXMarius Produces on Some One Who Is a Judge of the Matter, the Effect of Being Deadabout 8 minutes
  311. Book Third: Mud but the Soul · Chapter XReturn of the Son Who Was Prodigal of His Lifeabout 3 minutes
  312. Book Third: Mud but the Soul · Chapter XIConcussion in the Absoluteabout 3 minutes
  313. Book Third: Mud but the Soul · Chapter XIIThe Grandfatherabout 12 minutes
  314. Book Fourth: Javert Derailed · Chapter Iabout 24 minutes
  315. Book Fifth: Grandson and Grandfather · Chapter IIn Which the Tree with the Zinc Plaster Appears Againabout 6 minutes
  316. Book Fifth: Grandson and Grandfather · Chapter IIMarius, Emerging from CIVIL War, Makes Ready for Domestic Warabout 9 minutes
  317. Book Fifth: Grandson and Grandfather · Chapter IIIMarius Attackedabout 6 minutes
  318. Book Fifth: Grandson and Grandfather · Chapter IVMademoiselle Gillenormand Ends by No Longer Thinking It a Bad Thing That M. Fauchelevent Should Have Entered with Something Under His Armabout 10 minutes
  319. Book Fifth: Grandson and Grandfather · Chapter VDeposit Your Money in a Forest Rather Than with a Notaryabout 2 minutes
  320. Book Fifth: Grandson and Grandfather · Chapter VIThe Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own Fashion, to Render Cosette Happyabout 16 minutes
  321. Book Fifth: Grandson and Grandfather · Chapter VIIThe Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happinessabout 4 minutes
  322. Book Fifth: Grandson and Grandfather · Chapter VIIITwo Men Impossible to Findabout 8 minutes
  323. Book Sixth: The Sleepless Night · Chapter IThe 16th of February, 1833about 16 minutes
  324. Book Sixth: The Sleepless Night · Chapter IIJean Valjean Still Wears His Arm in a Slingabout 18 minutes
  325. Book Sixth: The Sleepless Night · Chapter IIIThe Inseparableabout 5 minutes
  326. Book Sixth: The Sleepless Night · Chapter IVThe Immortal Liver 68about 9 minutes
  327. Book Seventh: The Last Draught from the Cup · Chapter IThe Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heavenabout 34 minutes
  328. Book Seventh: The Last Draught from the Cup · Chapter IIThe Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Containabout 16 minutes
  329. Book Eighth: Fading Away of the Twilight · Chapter IThe Lower Chamberabout 8 minutes
  330. Book Eighth: Fading Away of the Twilight · Chapter IIAnother Step Backwardsabout 5 minutes
  331. Book Eighth: Fading Away of the Twilight · Chapter IIIThey Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumetabout 8 minutes
  332. Book Eighth: Fading Away of the Twilight · Chapter IVAttraction and Extinctionabout 3 minutes
  333. Book Ninth: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn · Chapter IPity for the Unhappy, but Indulgence for the Happyabout 4 minutes
  334. Book Ninth: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn · Chapter IILast Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oilabout 3 minutes
  335. Book Ninth: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn · Chapter IIIA Pen Is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent’s Cartabout 6 minutes
  336. Book Ninth: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn · Chapter IVA Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whiteningabout 35 minutes
  337. Book Ninth: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn · Chapter VA Night Behind Which There Is Dayabout 19 minutes
  338. Book Ninth: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn · Chapter VIThe Grass Covers and the Rain Effacesabout 18 minutes

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