Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

Description

It has been said that Victor Hugo has a street named after him in virtually every town in France. A major reason for the singular celebrity of this most popular and versatile of the great French writers is Les Misérables (1862). In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean — a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert — Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.
Les Misérables is at once a tense thriller that contains one of the most compelling chase scenes in all literature, an epic portrayal of the nineteenth-century French citizenry, and a vital drama — highly particularized and poetic in its rendition but universal in its implications — of the redemption of one human being.
One of the half-dozen greatest novels of the world. —Upton Sinclair
The greatest of all novels. —Leo Tolstoy
Hugo is unquestionably the most powerful talent that has appeared in France in the nineteenth century. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I sobbed and wailed and thought [books] were the greatest things. —Susan Sontag

Sujets

• War of the worlds
• Sense and sensibility
• Dostoyevsky
• Kipling
• Dublineses
• León Tolstói
• Leo Tolstoy
• Biography
• A Tale of Two Cities
• The Complete Works
• Brontë family
• The Three Musketeers
• Christmas carol
• Crime and Punishment
• Wuthering Heights
• Ulysses
• Pride and Prejudice
• Call of the Wild
• Oliver Twist
• Jane Austen
• Time machine
• Sherlock Holmes
• Bleak House
• Dubliners
• Idiot
• Free
• EMMA
• Ulysse (homonymie)
• Tom Sawyer
• Moby Dick
• Wells
• Jane Eyre
• David Copperfield
• Persuasion
• Mark Twain
• Iliad
• Le Livre de la jungle
• Jack London
• Victor Hugo

Informations

• Publié par: Pandora's Box
• Date de parution: 25 juin 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 133
• EAN13: 9789897782367
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Victor Hugo
LES MISÉRABLES
Table of Contents
 
 
 
Volume 1 — Fantine
Preface
Book First — A Just Man
Chapter 1 — M. Myriel
Chapter 2 — M. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome
Chapter 3 — A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop
Chapter 4 — Works Corresponding to Words
Chapter 5 — Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long
Chapter 6 — Who Guarded His House for Him
Chapter 7 — Cravatte
Chapter 8 — Philosophy After Drinking
Chapter 9 — The Brother as Depicted by the Sister
Chapter 10 — The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light
Chapter 11 — A Restriction
Chapter 12 — The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome
Chapter 13 — What he Believed
Chapter 14 — What he Thought
Book Second — The Fall
Chapter 1 — The Evening of a Day of Walking
Chapter 2 — Prudence Counselled to Wisdom.
Chapter 3 — The Heroism of Passive Obedience.
Chapter 4 — Details Concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier
Chapter 5 — Tranquillity
Chapter 6 — Jean Valjean
Chapter 7 — The Interior of Despair
Chapter 8 — Billows and Shadows
Chapter 9 — New Troubles
Chapter 10 — The Man Aroused
Chapter 11 — What he Does
Chapter 12 — The Bishop Works
Chapter 13 — Little Gervais
Book Third — In the Year 1817
Chapter 1 — The Year 1817
Chapter 2 — A Double Quartette
Chapter 3 — Four and Four
Chapter 4 — Tholomyes is So Merry that he Sings a Spanish Ditty
Chapter 5 — At Bombarda’s
Chapter 6 — A Chapter in which They Adore Each Other
Chapter 7 — The Wisdom of Tholomyes
Chapter 8 — The Death of a Horse
Chapter 9 — A Merry End to Mirth
Book Fourth — To Confide is Sometimes to Deliver into a Person’s Power
Chapter 1 — One Mother Meets Another Mother
Chapter 2 — First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures
Chapter 3 — The Lark
Book Fifth — The Descent
Chapter 1 — The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets
Chapter 2 — Madeleine
Chapter 3 — Sums Deposited with Laffitte
Chapter 4 — M. Madeleine in Mourning
Chapter 5 — Vague Flashes on the Horizon
Chapter 6 — Father Fauchelevent
Chapter 7 — Fauchelevent Becomes a Gardener in Paris
Chapter 8 — Madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs on Morality
Chapter 9 — Madame Victurnien’s Success
Chapter 10 — Result of the Success
Chapter 11 — Christus Nos Liberavit
Chapter 12 — M. Bamatabois’s Inactivity
Chapter 13 — The Solution of Some Questions Connected with the Municipal Police
Book Sixth — Javert
Chapter 1 — The Beginning of Repose
Chapter 2 — How Jean May Become Champ
Book Seventh — The Champmathieu Affair
Chapter 1 — Sister Simplice
Chapter 2 — The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire
Chapter 3 — A Tempest in a Skull
Chapter 4 — Forms Assumed by Suffering During Sleep
Chapter 5 — Hindrances
Chapter 6 — Sister Simplice Put to the Proof
Chapter 7 — The Traveller on His Arrival Takes Precautions for Departure
Chapter 8 — An Entrance by Favor
Chapter 9 — A Place where Convictions are in Process of Formation
Chapter 10 — The System of Denials
Chapter 11 — Champmathieu More and More Astonished
Book Eighth — A Counter-Blow
Chapter 1 — In what Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair
Chapter 2 — Fantine Happy
Chapter 3 — Javert Satisfied
Chapter 4 — Authority Reasserts its Rights
Chapter 5 — A Suitable Tomb
Volume 2 — Cosette
Book First — Waterloo
Chapter 1 — What is Met with on the Way from Nivelles
Chapter 2 — Hougomont
Chapter 3 — The Eighteenth of June, 1815
Chapter 4 — A
Chapter 5 — The Quid Obscurum of Battles
Chapter 6 — Four O’clock in the Afternoon
Chapter 7 — Napoleon in a Good Humor
Chapter 8 — The Emperor Puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste
Chapter 9 — The Unexpected
Chapter 10 — The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean
Chapter 11 — A Bad Guide to Napoleon; a Good Guide to Bulow
Chapter 12 — The Guard
Chapter 13 — The Catastrophe
Chapter 14 — The Last Square
Chapter 15 — Cambronne
Chapter 16 — Quot Libras in Duce?
Chapter 17 — Is Waterloo to Be Considered Good?
Chapter 18 — A Recrudescence of Divine Right
Chapter 19 — The Battle-Field at Night
Book Second — The Ship Orion
Chapter 1 — Number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430
Chapter 2 — In which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, which are of the Devil’s Composition, Possibly
Chapter 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
Chapter 1 — The Water Question at Montfermeil
Chapter 2 — Two Complete Portraits
Chapter 3 — Men Must have Wine, and Horses Must have Water
Chapter 4 — Entrance on the Scene of a Doll
Chapter 5 — The Little One All Alone
Chapter 6 — Which Possibly Proves Boulatruelle’s Intelligence
Chapter 7 — Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark
Chapter 8 — The Unpleasantness of Receiving into One’s House a Poor Man who May Be a Rich Man
Chapter 9 — Thenardier and His Manoeuvres
Chapter 10 — He who Seeks to Better Himself May Render His Situation Worse
Chapter 11 — Number 9,430 Reappears, and Cosette Wins it in the Lottery
Book Fourth — The Gorbeau Hovel
Chapter 1 — Master Gorbeau
Chapter 2 — A Nest for Owl and a Warbler
Chapter 3 — Two Misfortunes Make One Piece of Good Fortune
Chapter 4 — The Remarks of the Principal Tenant
Chapter 5 — A Five-Franc Piece Falls on the Ground and Produces a Tumult
Book Fifth — For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack
Chapter 1 — The Zigzags of Strategy
Chapter 2 — It is Lucky that the Pont D’austerlitz Bears Carriages
Chapter 3 — To Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727
Chapter 4 — The Gropings of Flight
Chapter 5 — Which Would Be Impossible with Gas Lanterns
Chapter 6 — The Beginning of an Enigma
Chapter 7 — Continuation of the Enigma
Chapter 8 — The Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious
Chapter 9 — The Man with the Bell
Chapter 10 — Which Explains How Javert Got on the Scent
Book Sixth — Le Petit-Picpus
Chapter 1 — Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus
Chapter 2 — The Obedience of Martin Verga
Chapter 3 — Austerities
Chapter 4 — Gayeties
Chapter 5 — Distractions
Chapter 6 — The Little Convent
Chapter 7 — Some Silhouettes of this Darkness
Chapter 8 — Post Corda Lapides
Chapter 9 — A Century Under a Guimpe
Chapter 10 — Origin of the Perpetual Adoration
Chapter 11 — End of the Petit-Picpus
Book Seventh — Parenthesis
Chapter 1 — The Convent as an Abstract Idea
Chapter 2 — The Convent as an Historical Fact
Chapter 3 — On what Conditions One Can Respect the Past
Chapter 4 — The Convent from the Point of View of Principles
Chapter 5 — Prayer
Chapter 6 — The Absolute Goodness of Prayer
Chapter 7 — Precautions to Be Observed in Blame
Chapter 8 — Faith, Law
Book Eighth — Cemeteries Take that which is Committed Them
Chapter 1 — Which Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent
Chapter 2 — Fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty
Chapter 3 — Mother Innocente
Chapter 4 — In which Jean Valjean has Quite the Air of Having Read Austin Castillejo
Chapter 5 — It is Not Necessary to Be Drunk in Order to Be Immortal
Chapter 6 — Between Four Planks
Chapter 7 — In which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don’t Lose the Card
Chapter 8 — A Successful Interrogatory
Chapter 9 — Cloistered
Volume 3 — Marius
Book First — Paris Studied in its Atom
Chapter 1 — Parvulus
Chapter 2 — Some of His Particular Characteristics
Chapter 3 — He is Agreeable
Chapter 4 — He May Be of Use
Chapter 5 — His Frontiers
Chapter 6 — A Bit of History
Chapter 7 — The Gamin Should have His Place in the Classifications of India
Chapter 8 — In which the Reader Will Find a Charming Saying of the Last King
Chapter 9 — The Old Soul of Gaul
Chapter 10 — Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo
Chapter 11 — To Scoff, to Reign
Chapter 12 — The Future Latent in the People
Chapter 13 — Little Gavroche <