Les Misérables.
Title:
Les Misérables.
Author:
Hugo, Victor.
ISBN:
9781467797894
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1305 pages)
Series:
First Avenue Classics Ser.
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Content -- VOLUME I-FANTINE -- PREFACE -- BOOK FIRST-A JUST MAN -- 1. M. Myriel -- 2. M. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome -- 3. A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop -- 4. Works Corresponding to Words -- 5. Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long -- 6. Who Guarded His House for Him -- 7. Cravatte -- 8. Philosophy after Drinking -- 9. The Brother as Depicted by the Sister -- 10. The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light -- 11. A Restriction -- 12. The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome -- 13. What He Believed -- 14. What He Thought -- BOOK SECOND-THE FALL -- 1. The Evening of a Day of Walking -- 2. Prudence Counselled to Wisdom -- 3. The Heroism of Passive Obedience -- 4. Details Concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier -- 5. Tranquillity -- 6. Jean Valjean -- 7. The Interior of Despair -- 8. Billows and Shadows -- 9. New Troubles -- 10. The Man Aroused -- 11. What He Does -- 12. The Bishop Works -- 13. Little Gervais -- BOOK THIRD-IN THE YEAR 1817 -- 1. The Year 1817 -- 2. A Double Quartette -- 3. Four and Four -- 4. Tholomyes Is so Merry that He Sings a Spanish Ditty -- 5. At Bombarda's -- 6. A Chapter in Which They Adore Each Other -- 7. The Wisdom of Tholomyes -- 8. The Death of a Horse -- 9. A Merry End to Mirth -- BOOK FOURTH-TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER -- 1. One Mother Meets Another Mother -- 2. First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures -- 3. The Lark -- BOOK FIFTH-THE DESCENT -- 1. The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets -- 2. Madeleine -- 3. Sums Deposited with Laffitte -- 4. M. Madeleine in Mourning -- 5. Vague Flashes on the Horizon -- 6. Father Fauchelevent -- 7. Fauchelevent Becomes a Gardener in Paris.
8. Madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs on Morality -- 9. Madame Victurnien's Success -- 10. Result of the Success -- 11. Christus Nos Liberavit -- 12. M. Bamatabois's Inactivity -- 13. The Solution of Some Questions Connected with the Municipal Police -- BOOK SIXTH-JAVERT -- 1. The Beginning of Repose -- 2. How Jean May Become Champ -- BOOK SEVENTH-THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR -- 1. Sister Simplice -- 2. The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire -- 3. A Tempest in a Skull -- 4. Forms Assumed by Suffering During Sleep -- 5. Hindrances -- 6. Sister Simplice Put to the Proof -- 7. The Traveller on His Arrival Takes Precautions for Departure -- 8. An Entrance by Favor -- 9. A Place Where Convictions are in Process of Formation -- 10. The System of Denials -- 11. Champmathieu More and More Astonished -- BOOK EIGHTH-A COUNTER-BLOW -- 1. In What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair -- 2. Fantine Happy -- 3. Javert Satisfied -- 4. Authority Reasserts Its Rights -- 5. A Suitable Tomb -- VOLUME II-COSETTE -- BOOK FIRST-WATERLOO -- 1. What Is Met with on the Way from Nivelles -- 2. Hougomont -- 3. The Eighteenth of June, 1815 -- 4. A -- 5. The Quid Obscurum of Battles -- 6. Four O'clock in the Afternoon -- 7. Napoleon in a Good Humor -- 8. The Emperor Puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste -- 9. The Unexpected -- 10. The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean -- 11. A Bad Guide to Napoleon -- a Good Guide to Bulow -- 12. The Guard -- 13. The Catastrophe -- 14. t>The Last Square -- 15. t>Cambronne -- 16. t>Quot Libras in Duce? -- 17. t>Is Waterloo to be Considered Good? -- 18. t>A Recrudescence of Divine Right -- 19. t>The Battle-Field at Night -- BOOK SECOND-THE SHIP ORION -- 1. Number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430.
2. In Which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, Which Are of the Devil's Composition, Possibly -- 3. The Ankle-Chain Must Have Undergone a Certain Preparatory Manipulation to Be Thus Broken with a Blow from a Hammer -- BOOK THIRD-ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN -- 1. The Water Question at Montfermeil -- 2. Two Complete Portraits -- 3. Men Must Have Wine, and Horses Must Have Water -- 4. Entrance on the Scene of a Doll -- 5. The Little One All Alone -- 6. Which Possibly Proves Boulatruelle's Intelligence -- 7. Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark -- 8. The Unpleasantness of Receiving into One's House a Poor Man Who May Be a Rich Man -- 9. Thenardier and His Manoeuvres -- 10. He Who Seeks to Better Himself May Render His Situation Worse -- 11. Number 9,430 Reappears, and Cosette Wins It in the Lottery -- BOOK FOURTH-THE GORBEAU HOVEL -- 1. Master Gorbeau -- 2. A Nest for Owl and a Warbler -- 3. Two Misfortunes Make One Piece of Good Fortune -- 4. The Remarks of the Principal Tenant -- 5. A Five-Franc Piece Falls on the Ground and Produces a Tumult -- BOOK FIFTH-FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK -- 1. The Zigzags of Strategy -- 2. It Is Lucky That the Pont D'austerlitz Bears Carriages -- 3. To Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727 -- 4. The Gropings of Flight -- 5. Which Would Be Impossible with Gas Lanterns -- 6. The Beginning of an Enigma -- 7. Continuation of the Enigma -- 8. The Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious -- 9. The Man with the Bell -- 10. Which Explains How Javert Got on the Scent -- BOOK SIXTH-LE PETIT-PICPUS -- 1. Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus -- 2. The Obedience of Martin Verga -- 3. Austerities -- 4. Gayeties -- 5. Distractions -- 6. The Little Convent -- 7. Some Silhouettes of This Darkness -- 8. Post Corda Lapides.
9. A Century under a Guimpe -- 10. Origin of the Perpetual Adoration -- 11. End of the Petit-Picpus -- BOOK SEVENTH-PARENTHESIS -- 1. The Convent as an Abstract Idea -- 2. The Convent as an Historical Fact -- 3. On What Conditions One Can Respect the Past -- 4. The Convent from the Point of View of Principles -- 5. Prayer -- 6. The Absolute Goodness of Prayer -- 7. Precautions to Be Observed in Blame -- 8. Faith, Law -- BOOK EIGHTH-CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM -- 1. Which Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent -- 2. Fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty -- 3. Mother Innocente -- 4. In Which Jean Valjean Has Quite the Air of Having Read Austin Castillejo -- 5. It Is Not Necessary to Be Drunk in Order to Be Immortal -- 6. Between Four Planks -- 7. In Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don't Lose the Card -- 8. A Successful Interrogatory -- 9. Cloistered -- VOLUME III-MARIUS. -- BOOK FIRST-PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM -- 1. Parvulus -- 2. Some of His Particular Characteristics -- 3. He Is Agreeable -- 4. He May Be of Use -- 5. His Frontiers -- 6. A Bit of History -- 7. The Gamin Should Have His Place in the Classifications of India -- 8. In Which the Reader Will Find a Charming Saying of the Last King -- 9. The Old Soul of Gaul -- 10. Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo -- 11. To Scoff, to Reign -- 12. The Future Latent in the People -- 13. Little Gavroche -- BOOK SECOND-THE GREAT BOURGEOIS -- 1. Ninety Years and Thirty-Two Teeth -- 2. Like Master, like House -- 3. Luc-Esprit -- 4. A Centenarian Aspirant -- 5. Basque and Nicolette -- 6. In Which Magnon and Her Two Children Are Seen -- 7. Rule: Receive No One Except in the Evening -- 8. Two Do Not Make a Pair -- BOOK THIRD-THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON.
1. An Ancient Salon -- 2. One of the Red Spectres of That Epoch -- 3. Requiescant -- 4. End of the Brigand -- 5. The Utility of Going to Mass, in Order to Become a Revolutionist -- 6. The Consequences of Having Met a Warden -- 7. Some Petticoat -- 8. Marble Against Granite -- BOOK FOURTH-THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C -- 1. A Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic -- 2. Blondeau's Funeral Oration by Bossuet -- 3. Marius' Astonishments -- 4. The Back Room of the Cafe Musain -- 5. Enlargement of Horizon -- 6. Res Angusta -- BOOK FIFTH-THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE -- 1. Marius Indigent -- 2. Marius Poor -- 3. Marius Grown Up -- 4. M. Mabeuf -- 5. Poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery -- 6. The Substitute -- BOOK SIXTH-THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS -- 1. The Sobriquet: Mode of Formation of Family Names -- 2. Lux Facta Est -- 3. Effect of the Spring -- 4. Beginning of a Great Malady -- 5. Divrs Claps of Thunder Fall on Ma'am Bougon -- 6. Taken Prisoner -- 7. Adventures of the Letter U Delivered over to Conjectures -- 8. The Veterans Themselves Can Be Happy -- 9. Eclipse -- BOOK SEVENTH-PATRON MINETTE -- 1. Mines and Miners -- 2. The Lowest Depths -- 3. Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse -- 4. Composition of the Troupe -- BOOK EIGHTH-THE WICKED POOR MAN -- 1. Marius, While Seeking a Girl in a Bonnet, Encounters a Man in a Cap -- 2. Treasure Trove -- 3. Quadrifrons -- 4. A Rose in Misery -- 5. A Providential Peep-Hole -- 6. The Wild Man in His Lair -- 7. Strategy and Tactics -- 8. The Ray of Light in the Hovel -- 9. Jondrette Comes near Weeping -- 10. Tariff of Licensed Cabs: Two Francs an Hour -- 11. Offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness -- 12. The Use Made of M. Leblanc's Five-Franc Piece.
13. Solus Cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabuntur Orare Pater Noster.
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