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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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