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 V - Jean Valjean
Book First - The War Between Four Walls

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

• Brief plot synopsis
• Volume I - Fantine
• Volume II - Cosette
• Volume III - Marius
• Volume IV - Saint Denis
• Volume V - Jean Valjean
  • Book First - The War Between Four Walls
    • Chapter 1: The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and the Scylla of the Faubourg du Temple
    • Chapter 2: What Is to Be Done in the Abyss if One Does Not Converse
    • Chapter 3: Light and Shadow
    • Chapter 4: Minus Five, Plus One
    • Chapter 5: The Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a Barricade
    • Chapter 6: Marius Haggard, Javert Laconic
    • Chapter 7: The Situation Becomes Aggravated
    • Chapter 8: The Artillery-men Compel People to Take Them Seriously
    • Chapter 9: Employment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That Infallible Marksmanship Which Influenced the Condemnation of 1796
    • Chapter 10: Dawn
    • Chapter 11: The Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One
    • Chapter 12: Disorder a Partisan of Order
    • Chapter 13: Passing Gleams
    • Chapter 14: Wherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras' Mistress
    • Chapter 15: Gavroche Outside
    • Chapter 16: How from a Brother One Becomes a Father
    • Chapter 17: Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat
    • Chapter 18: The Vulture Becomes Prey
    • Chapter 19: Jean Valjean Takes His Revenge
    • Chapter 20: The Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the Wrong
    • Chapter 21: The Heroes
    • Chapter 22: Foot to Foot
    • Chapter 23: Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk
    • Chapter 24: Prisoner
  • Book Second - The Intestine of the Leviathan
  • Book Third - Mud But the Soul
  • Book Fourth - Javert Derailed
  • Book Fifth - Grandson and Grandfather
  • Book Sixth - The Sleepless Night
  • Book Seventh - The Last Draught from the Cup
  • Book Eighth - Fading away of the Twilight
  • Book Ninth - Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn
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