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Authors: Victor Hugo

Les Miserables (abridged) (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

Table of Contents

FROM THE PAGES OF LES MISÉRABLES

Title Page

VICTOR HUGO

THE WORLD OF VICTOR HUGO AND LES MISÉRABLES

Introduction

Acknowledgements

A NOTE ON THE ABRIDGMENT

PREFACE

FANTINE - BOOK ONE AN UPRIGHT MAN

Chapter 1 - M. MYRIEL

Chapter 2 - M. MYRIEL BECOMES MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU

Chapter 3 - A DIFFICULT DIOCESE FOR A GOOD BISHOP

Chapter 4 - GOOD WORKS THAT MATCH THE WORDS

5 (7) - CRAVATTE

6 (10) - THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT

BOOK TWO - THE FALL

Chapter 1 - THE EVENING AFTER A LONG DAY’S WALK

Chapter 2 - PRUDENCE COMMENDED TO WISDOM

Chapter 3 - THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE

4 (5) - TRANQUILLITY

5 (6) - JEAN VALJEAN

6 (7) - THE DEPTHS OF DESPAIR

7 (9) - GRIEVANCES

8 (10) - THE MAN AWAKES

9 (11) - WHAT HE DOES

10 (12) - THE BISHOP AT WORK

11 (13) - PETIT GERVAIS

BOOK THREE - IN THE YEAR 1817

Chapter 1 - THE YEAR 1817

Chapter 2 - DOUBLE FOURSOME

Chapter 3 - FOUR TO FOUR

Chapter 4 - THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH SONG

Chapter 5 - AT BOMBARDA’S

Chapter 6 - A CHAPTER OF SELF-ADMIRATION

Chapter 7 - THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES

8 (9) - JOYOUS END OF JOY

BOOK FOUR - TO ENTRUST IS SOMETIMES TO ABANDON

Chapter 1 - ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER

Chapter 2 - FIRST SKETCH OF TWO SUSPICIOUS-LOOKING FACES

Chapter 3 - THE LARK

BOOK FIVE - THE DESCENT

Chapter 1 - THE STORY OF AN IMPROVEMENT IN JET-WORK

Chapter 2 - MADELEINE

Chapter 3 - MONEYS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE

Chapter 4 - MONSIEUR MADELEINE IN MOURNING

Chapter 5 - FAINT LIGHTNING FLASHES ON THE HORIZON

Chapter 6 - OLD FAUCHELEVENT

Chapter 7 - FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER AT PARIS

Chapter 8 - MADAME VICTURNIEN SPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY

Chapter 9 - SUCCESS OF MADAME VICTURNIEN

Chapter 10 - FURTHER SUCCESS OF THE GOSSIPS

11 (12) - THE IDLENESS OF MONSIEUR BAMATABOIS

12 (13) - THE SOLUTION TO SOME MUNICIPAL POLICE ISSUES

BOOK SIX - JAVERT

Chapter 1 - THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE

Chapter 2 - HOW JEAN CAN BECOME CHAMP

BOOK SEVEN - THE CHAMPMATHIEU CASE

Chapter 1 - SISTER SIMPLICE

Chapter 2 - THE SHREWDNESS OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE

3 (4) - FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP

4 (5) - OBSTACLES

5 (6) - SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE TEST

6 (7) - THE TRAVELLER ARRIVES AND PROVIDES FOR HIS RETURN

7 (8) - ADMISSION BY FAVOUR

8 (9) - A PLACE FOR ARRIVING AT CONVICTIONS

9 (10) - THE ACCUSED

10 (11) - CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED

BOOK EIGHT - COUNTER-STROKE

Chapter 1 - IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE LOOKS AT HIS HAIR

Chapter 2 - FANTINE HAPPY

Chapter 3 - JAVERT SATISFIED

Chapter 4 - AUTHORITY RESUMES ITS SWAY

Chapter 5 - A FITTING TOMB

COSETTE - BOOK ONE WATERLOO

Chapter 1 - WHAT YOU MEET IN COMING FROM NIVELLES

2 (19) - THE FIELD OF BATTLE AT NIGHT

BOOK Two - THE CONVICT SHIP ORION

Chapter 1 - NUMBER 24601 BECOMES NUMBER 9430

2 (3) - SHOWING THAT THE CHAIN OF THE SHACKLE MUST NEEDS HAVE UNDERGONE A ...

BOOK THREE - KEEPING THE PROMISE TO THE DEAD WOMAN

Chapter 1 - THE WATER PROBLEM AT MONTFERMEIL

Chapter 2 - TWO PORTRAITS COMPLETED

Chapter 3 - MEN MUST HAVE WINE AND HORSES WATER

Chapter 4 - A DOLL COMES ONSTAGE

Chapter 5 - THE LITTLE GIRL ALL ALONE

Chapter 6 - WHICH PERHAPS PROVES THE INTELLIGENCE OF BOULATRUELLE

Chapter 7 - COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE UNKNOWN, IN THE DARKNESS

Chapter 8 - INCONVENIENCE OF ENTERTAINING A POOR MAN WHO IS PERHAPS RICH

Chapter 9 - THENARDIER MANŒUVRING

Chapter 10 - WHO SEEKS THE BEST MAY FIND THE WORST

Chapter 11 - NUMBER 9430 COMES UP AGAIN, AND COSETTE DRAWS IT

BOOK FOUR - THE OLD GORBEAU HOUSE

Chapter 1 - MASTER GORBEAU

Chapter 2 - A NEST FOR OWL AND WREN

Chapter 3 - TWO MISFORTUNES MINGLED MAKE HAPPINESS

Chapter 4 - WHAT THE LANDLADY DISCOVERED

Chapter 5 - A FIVE-FRANC COIN FALLING ON THE FLOOR MAKES A NOISE

BOOK FIVE - A SINISTER HUNT REQUIRES A SILENT PACK

Chapter 1 - STRATEGIC ZIGZAGS

Chapter 2 - IT IS FORTUNATE THAT VEHICLES CAN CROSS THE BRIDGE OF AUSTERLITZ

Chapter 3 - SEE THE MAP OF PARIS IN 1727

Chapter 4 - GROPING FOR ESCAPE

Chapter 5 - WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WERE THE STREETS LIGHTED WITH GAS

Chapter 6 - A MYSTERY BEGINS

Chapter 7 - THE MYSTERY CONTINUED

Chapter 8 - THE MYSTERY REDOUBLES

Chapter 9 - THE MAN WITH THE BELL

Chapter 10 - IN WHICH IS EXPLAINED HOW JAVERT LOST HIS PREY

BOOK EIGHT - CEMETERIES TAKE WHAT IS GIVEN THEM

Chapter 1 - WHICH TELLS HOW TO ENTER THE CONVENT

Chapter 2 - FAUCHELEVENT FACING THE DIFFICULTY

Chapter 3 - MOTHER INNOCENT

Chapter 4 - IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE APPEARANCE OF HAVING READ ...

Chapter 5 - IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO BE A DRUNKARD TO BE IMMORTAL

Chapter 6 - DEAD AND BURIED

Chapter 7 - THE MISSING CARD

Chapter 8 - SUCCESSFUL EXAMINATION

Chapter 9 - THE CLOSE

MARIUS - BOOK ONE PARIS STUDIED THROUGH ITS MICROCOSM

Chapter 1 - PARVULUS

Chapter 2 - SOME OF HIS PRIVATE MARKS

Chapter 3 - HE IS AGREEABLE

Chapter 4 - HE MAY BE USEFUL

5 (13) - LITTLE GAVROCHE

BOOK THREE - THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON

1 (2) - ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT TIME

2 (3) - REQUIESCANT

3 (4) - END OF THE BRIGAND

4 (5) - THE USEFULNESS OF GOING TO MASS TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONARY

5 (6) - WHAT IT IS TO HAVE MET A CHURCHWARDEN

BOOK FOUR - THE FRIENDS OF THEABC

Chapter 1 - A GROUP WHICH ALMOST BECAME HISTORIC

Chapter 2 - FUNERAL ORATION UPON BLONDEAU, BY BOSSUET

Chapter 3 - THE ASTONISHMENTS OF MARIUS

Chapter 4 - THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN

Chapter 5 - ENLARGEMENT OF THE HORIZON

Chapter 6 - ANGUISH

BOOK FIVE - THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE

Chapter 1 - MARIUS INDIGENT

Chapter 2 - MARIUS POOR

Chapter 3 - MARIUS GROWN

BOOK SIX - THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS

Chapter 1 - THE NICKNAME: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES

Chapter 2 - A LIGHT DAWNS

Chapter 3 - AN EFFECT OF SPRING

Chapter 4 - COMMENCEMENT OF A SERIOUS ILLNESS

Chapter 5 - SUNDRY THUNDERBOLTS FALL UPON MA‘AM BOUGON

Chapter 6 - TAKEN PRISONER

Chapter 7 - ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U ABANDONED TO CONJECTURE

Chapter 8 - EVEN DISABLED VETERANS MAY BE LUCKY

Chapter 9 - AN ECLIPSE

BOOK SEVEN - PATRON-MINETTE

Chapter 1 - THE MINES AND THE MINERS

Chapter 2 - THE LOWEST DEPTH

Chapter 3 - BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE

Chapter 4 - COMPOSITION OF THE BAND

BOOK EIGHT - THE CRIMINAL POOR

1 (2) - A FIND

2 (3) - THE MAN WITH FOUR FACES

3 (4) - A ROSE IN DIRE POVERTY

4 (5) - THE PROVIDENTIAL SPYHOLE

5 (6) - THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR

6 (7) - STRATEGY AND TACTICS

7 (8) - THE SUNBEAM IN THE HOLE

8 (9) - JONDRETTE WEEPS ALMOST

9 (10) - PRICE OF CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR

10 (11) - OFFERS OF SERVICE BY POVERTY TO GRIEF

11 (12) - THE USE OF M. LEBLANC’S FIVE-FRANC COIN

12 (13) - SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABANTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER

13 (14) - IN WHICH A POLICE OFFICER GIVES A LAWYER TWO COUPS DE POIGN

14 (15) - JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASE

15 (16) - IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE SONG SET TO AN ENGLISH AIR IN FASHION IN 1832

16 (17) - USE OF MARIUS’ FIVE-FRANC COIN

17 (18) - MARIUS’ TWO CHAIRS FACE EACH OTHER

18 (19) - THE DISTRACTIONS OF DARK CORNERS

19 (20) - THE AMBUSH

20 (21) - THE VICTIMS SHOULD ALWAYS BE ARRESTED FIRST

THE EPIC ON THE RUE SAINT-DENIS AND THE IDYLL OF THE RUE PLUMET - BOOK ONE A ...

Chapter 1 - WELL CUT

Chapter 2 - BADLY SEWED TOGETHER

3 (4) - CRACKS UNDER THE FOUNDATION

BOOK Two - EPONINE

1(2) - EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS

2 (4) - AN APPARITION TO MARIUS

BOOK THREE - THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET

v - THE SECRET HOUSE

2 (5) - THE ROSE DISCOVERS THAT SHE IS AN ENGINE OF WAR

3 (6) - THE BATTLE COMMENCES

4 (7) - FOR SADNESS, SADNESS REDOUBLED

BOOK FOUR - AID FROM BELOW MAY BE AID FROM ABOVE

Chapter 1 - WOUND WITHOUT, CURE WITHIN

BOOK FIVE - THE END OF WHICH IS UNLIKE THE BEGINNING

1(2) - FEARS OF COSETTE

2 (3) - ENRICHED BY THE COMMENTARIES OF TOUSSAINT

3 (4) - A HEART UNDER A STONE

4 (5) - COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER

5 (6) - THE OLD ARE MADE TO GO OUT WHEN CONVENIENT

BOOK SIX - LITTLE GAVROCHE

Chapter 1 - A MALEVOLENT TRICK OF THE WIND

Chapter 2 - IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE TAKES ADVANTAGE OF NAPOLEON THE GREAT

Chapter 3 - THE FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF ESCAPE

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