Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo (1862)

Translated from the original French version by Isabel F Hapgood, Les Misérables is one of the most well known 19^th century novels.

Volume III - Marius
Book Eighth - The Wicked Poor Man

Cosette in the Thénardiers' inn,
depicted by Émile Bayard (1837-1891)

• Brief plot synopsis
• Volume I - Fantine
• Volume II - Cosette
• Volume III - Marius
  • Book First - Paris Studied in Its Atom
  • Book Second - The Great Bourgeois
  • Book Third - The Grandfather and the Grandson
  • Book Fourth - The Friends of the ABC
  • Book Fifth - The Excellence of Misfortune
  • Book Sixth - The Conjunction of Two Stars
  • Book Seventh - Patron Minette
  • Book Eighth - The Wicked Poor Man
    • Chapter 1: Marius, while seeking a Girl in a Bonnet encounters a Man in a Cap
    • Chapter 2: Treasure Trove
    • Chapter 3: Quadrifrons
    • Chapter 4: A Rose in Misery
    • Chapter 5: A Providential Peep-Hole
    • Chapter 6: The Wild Man in his Lair
    • Chapter 7: Strategy and Tactics
    • Chapter 8: The Ray of Light in the Hovel
    • Chapter 9: Jondrette comes near Weeping
    • Chapter 10: Tariff of Licensed Cabs, Two Francs an Hour
    • Chapter 11: Offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness
    • Chapter 12: The Use made of M. Leblanc's Five-Franc Piece
    • Chapter 13: Solus cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, non cogitabuntur orare Pater Noster
    • Chapter 14: In which a Police Agent bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer
    • Chapter 15: Jondrette makes his Purchases
    • Chapter 16: In which will be found the Words to an English Air which was in Fashion in 1832
    • Chapter 17: The Use made of Marius' Five-Franc Piece
    • Chapter 18: Marius' Two Chairs form a Vis-a-Vis
    • Chapter 19: Occupying Ones Self with Obscure Depths
    • Chapter 20: The Trap
    • Chapter 21: One should always begin by arresting the Victims
    • Chapter 22: The Little One who was crying in Volume Two
• Volume IV - Saint Denis
• Volume V - Jean Valjean
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