CONTENTS VOLUME I BOOK FIRST.--A JUST MAN CHAPTER I. M. Myriel II. M. Myriel becomes M. Welcome III. A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop IV. Works corresponding to Words V. Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long VI. Who guarded his House for him VII. Cravatte VIII. Philosophy after Drinking IX. The Brother as depicted by the Sister X. The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light XI. A Restriction XII. The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome XIII. What he believed XIV. What he thought BOOK SECOND.--THE FALL I. The Evening of a Day of Walking II. Prudence counselled to Wisdom III. The Heroism of Passive Obedience IV. Details concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier V. Tranquillity VI. Jean Valjean VII. The Interior of Despair VIII. Billows and Shadows IX. New Troubles X. The Man aroused XI. What he does XII. The Bishop works XIII. Little Gervais BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 I. The Year 1817 II. A Double Quartette III. Four and Four IV. Tholomyes is so Merry that he sings a Spanish Ditty V. At Bombardas VI. A Chapter in which they adore Each Other VII. The Wisdom of Tholomyes VIII. The Death of a Horse IX. A Merry End to Mirth BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER I. One Mother meets Another Mother II. First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures III. The Lark BOOK FIFTH.-- THE DESCENT I. The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets II. Madeleine III. Sums deposited with Laffitte IV. M. Madeleine in Mourning V. Vague Flashes on the Horizon VI. Father Fauchelevent VII. Fauchelevent becomes a Gardener in Paris VIII. Madame Victurnien expends Thirty Francs on Morality IX. Madame Victurnien's Success X. Result of the Success XI. Christus nos Liberavit XII. M. Bamatabois's Inactivity XIII. The Solution of Some Questions connected with the Municipal Police BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT I. The Beginning of Repose II. How Jean may become Champ BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR I. Sister Simplice II. The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire III. A Tempest in a Skull IV. Forms assumed by Suffering during Sleep V. Hindrances VI. Sister Simplice put to the Proof VII. The Traveller on his Arrival takes Precautions for Departure VIII. An Entrance by Favor IX. A Place where Convictions are in Process of Formation X. The System of Denials XI. Champmathieu more and more Astonished BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW I. In what Mirror M. Madeleine contemplates his Hair II. Fantine Happy III. Javert Satisfied IV. Authority reasserts its Rights V. A Suitable Tomb VOLUME II BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO CHAPTER I. What is met with on the Way from Nivelles II. Hougomont III. The Eighteenth of June, 1815 IV. A V. The Quid Obscurum of Battles VI. Four o'clock in the Afternoon VII. Napoleon in a Good Humor VIII. The Emperor puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste IX. The Unexpected X. The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean XI. A Bad Guide to Napoleon; a Good Guide to Bulow XII. The Guard XIII. The Catastrophe XIV. The Last Square XV. Cambronne XVI. Quot Libras in Duce? XVII. Is Waterloo to be considered Good? XVIII. A Recrudescence of Divine Right XIX. The Battle-Field at Night BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION I. Number 24,601 becomes Number 9,430 II. In which the reader will peruse Two Verses which are of the Devil's Composition possibly III. 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 I. The Water Question at Montfermeil II. Two Complete Portraits III. Men must have Wine, and Horses must have Water IV. Entrance on the Scene of a Doll V. The Little One All Alone VI. Which possibly proves Boulatruelle's Intelligence VII. Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark VIII. The Unpleasantness of receiving into One's House a Poor Man who may be a Rich Man IX. Thenardier at his Manoeuvres X. He who seeks to better himself may render his Situation Worse XI. Number 9,430 reappears, and Cosette wins it in the Lottery BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL I. Master Gorbeau II. A Nest for Owl and a Warbler III. Two Misfortunes make One Piece of Good Fortune IV. The Remarks of the Principal Tenant V. A Five-Franc Piece falls on the Ground and produces a Tumult BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK I. The Zigzags of Strategy II. It is Lucky that the Pont d'Austerlitz bears Carriages III. To Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727 IV. The Gropings of Flight V. Which would be Impossible with Gas Lanterns VI. The Beginning of an Enigma VII. Continuation of the Enigma VIII. The Enigma becomes Doubly Mysterious IX. The Man with the Bell X. Which explains how Javert got on the Scent BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS I. Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus II. The Obedience of Martin Verga III. Austerities IV. Gayeties V. Distractions VI. The Little Convent VII. Some Silhouettes of this Darkness VIII. Post Corda Lapides IX. A Century under a Guimpe X. Origin of the Perpetual Adoration XI. End of the Petit-Picpus BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS I. The Convent as an Abstract Idea II. The Convent as an Historical Fact III. On What Conditions One can respect the Past IV. The Convent from the Point of View of Principles V. Prayer VI. The Absolute Goodness of Prayer VII. Precautions to be observed in Blame VIII. Faith, Law BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM I. Which treats of the Manner of entering a Convent II. Fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty III. Mother Innocente IV. In which Jean Valjean has quite the Air of having read Austin Castillejo V. It is not Necessary to be Drunk in order to be Immortal VI. Between Four Planks VII. In which will be found the Origin of the Saying: Don't lose the Card VIII. A Successful Interrogatory IX. Cloistered VOLUME III BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM I. Parvulus II. Some of his Particular Characteristics III. He is Agreeable IV. He may be of Use V. His Frontiers VI. A Bit of History VII. The Gamin should have his Place in the Classifications of India VIII. In which the Reader will find a Charming Saying of the Last King IX. The Old Soul of Gaul X. Ecce Paris, ecce Homo XI. To Scoff, to Reign XII. The Future Latent in the People XIII. Little Gavroche BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS I. Ninety Years and Thirty-two Teeth II. Like Master, Like House III. Luc-Esprit IV. A Centenarian Aspirant V. Basque and Nicolette VI. In which Magnon and her Two Children are seen VII. Rule: Receive No One except in the Evening VIII. Two do not make a Pair BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON I. An Ancient Salon II. One of the Red Spectres of that Epoch III. Requiescant IV. End of the Brigand V. The Utility of going to Mass, in order to become a Revolutionist VI. The Consequences of having met a Warden VII. Some Petticoat VIII. Marble against Granite BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE ABC I. A Group which barely missed becoming Historic II. Blondeau's Funeral Oration by Bossuet III. Marius' Astonishments IV. The Back Room of the Cafe Musain V. Enlargement of Horizon VI. Res Angusta BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE I. Marius Indigent II. Marius Poor III. Marius Grown Up IV. M. Mabeuf V. Poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery VI. The Substitute BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS I. The Sobriquet; Mode of Formation of Family Names II. Lux Facta Est III. Effect of the Spring IV. Beginning of a Great Malady V. Divers Claps of Thunder fall on Ma'am Bougon VI. Taken Prisoner VII. Adventures of the Letter U delivered over to Conjectures VIII. The Veterans themselves can be Happy IX. Eclipse BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE I. Mines and Miners II. The Lowest Depths III. Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse IV. Composition of the Troupe BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN I. Marius, while seeking a Girl in a Bonnet encounters a Man in a Cap II. Treasure Trove III. Quadrifrons IV. A Rose in Misery V. A Providential Peep-Hole VI. The Wild Man in his Lair VII. Strategy and Tactics VIII. The Ray of Light in the Hovel IX. Jondrette comes near Weeping X. Tariff of Licensed Cabs, Two Francs an Hour XI. Offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness XII. The Use made of M. Leblanc's Five-Franc Piece XIII. Solus cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, non cogitabuntur orare Pater Noster XIV. In which a Police Agent bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer XV. Jondrette makes his Purchases XVI. In which will be found the Words to an English Air which was in Fashion in 1832 XVII. The Use made of Marius' Five-Franc Piece XVIII. Marius' Two Chairs form a Vis-a-Vis XIX. Occupying One's Self with Obscure Depths XX. The Trap XXI. One should always begin by arresting the Victims XXII. The Little One who was crying in Volume Two VOLUME IV BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY I. Well Cut II. Badly Sewed III. Louis Philippe IV. Cracks beneath the Foundation V. Facts whence History springs and which History ignores VI. Enjolras and his Lieutenants BOOK SECOND.--EPONINE I. The Lark's Meadow II. Embryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons III. Apparition to Father Mabeuf IV. An Apparition to Marius BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET I. The House with a Secret II. Jean Valjean as a National Guard III. Foliis ac Frondibus IV. Change of Gate V. The Rose perceives that it is an Engine of War VI. The Battle Begun VII. To One Sadness oppose a Sadness and a Half VIII. The Chain-Gang BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH I. A Wound without, Healing within II. Mother Plutarque finds no Difficulty in explaining a Phenomenon BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING I. Solitude and Barracks Combined II. Cosette's Apprehensions III. Enriched with Commentaries by Toussaint IV. A Heart beneath a Stone V. Cosette after the Letter VI. Old People are made to go out opportunely BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE I. The Malicious Playfulness of the Wind II. In which Little Gavroche extracts Profit from Napoleon the Great III. The Vicissitudes of Flight BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG I. Origin II. Roots III. Slang which weeps and Slang which laughs IV. The Two Duties: To Watch and to Hope BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS I. Full Light II. The Bewilderment of Perfect Happiness III. The Beginning of Shadow IV. A Cab runs in English and barks in Slang V. Things of the Night VI. Marius becomes Practical once more to the Extent of Giving Cosette his Address VII. The Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each Other BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? I. Jean Valjean II. Marius III. M. Mabeuf BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 I. The Surface of the Question II. The Root of the Matter III. A Burial; an Occasion to be born again IV. The Ebullitions of Former Days V. Originality of Paris BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE I. Some Explanations with Regard to the Origin of Gavroche's Poetry. The Influence of an Academician on this Poetry II. Gavroche on the March III. Just Indignation of a Hair-dresser IV. The Child is amazed at the Old Man V. The Old Man VI. Recruits BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE I. History of Corinthe from its Foundation II. Preliminary Gayeties III. Night begins to descend upon Grantaire IV. An Attempt to console the Widow Hucheloup V. Preparations VI. Waiting VII. The Man recruited in the Rue des Billettes VIII. Many Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain Le Cabuc, whose Name may not have been Le Cabuc BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW I. From the Rue Plumet to the Quartier Saint-Denis II. An Owl's View of Paris III. The Extreme Edge BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR I. The Flag: Act First II. The Flag: Act Second III. Gavroche would have done better to accept Enjolras' Carbine IV. The Barrel of Powder V. End of the Verses of Jean Prouvaire VI. The Agony of Death after the Agony of Life VII. Gavroche as a Profound Calculator of Distances BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARME I. A Drinker is a Babbler II. The Street Urchin an Enemy of Light III. While Cosette and Toussaint are Asleep IV. Gavroche's Excess of Zeal VOLUME V BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS I. The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and the Scylla of the Faubourg du Temple II. What Is to Be Done in the Abyss if One Does Not Converse III. Light and Shadow IV. Minus Five, Plus One V. The Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a Barricade VI. Marius Haggard, Javert Laconic VII. The Situation Becomes Aggravated VIII. The Artillery-men Compel People to Take Them Seriously IX. Employment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That Infallible Marksmanship Which Influenced the Condemnation of 1796 X. Dawn XI. The Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One XII. Disorder a Partisan of Order XIII. Passing Gleams XIV. Wherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras' Mistress XV. Gavroche Outside XVI. How from a Brother One Becomes a Father XVII. Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat XVIII. The Vulture Becomes Prey XIX. Jean Valjean Takes His Revenge XX. The Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the Wrong XXI. The Heroes XXII. Foot to Foot XXIII. Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk XXIV. Prisoner BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN I. The Land Impoverished by the Sea II. Ancient History of the Sewer III. Bruneseau IV. V. Present Progress VI. Future Progress BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL I. The Sewer and Its Surprises II. Explanation III. The "Spun" Man IV. He Also Bears His Cross V. In the Case of Sand, as in That of Woman, There Is a Fineness Which Is Treacherous VI. The Fontis VII. One Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is Disembarking VIII. The Torn Coat-Tail IX. Marius Produces on Some One Who Is a Judge of the Matter, the Effect of Being Dead X. Return of the Son Who Was Prodigal of His Life XI. Concussion in the Absolute XII. The Grandfather BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED I. BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER I. In Which the Tree with the Zinc Plaster Appears Again II. Marius, Emerging from Civil War, Makes Ready for Domestic War III. Marius Attacked IV. Mademoiselle Gillenormand Ends by No Longer Thinking It a Bad Thing That M. Fauchelevent Should Have Entered With Something Under His Arm V. Deposit Your Money in a Forest Rather than with a Notary VI. The Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own Fashion, to Render Cosette Happy VII. The Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happiness VIII. Two Men Impossible to Find BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT I. The 16th of February, 1833 II. Jean Valjean Still Wears His Arm in a Sling III. The Inseparable IV. The Immortal Liver BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP I. The Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven II. The Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Contain BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT I. The Lower Chamber II. Another Step Backwards III. They Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumet IV. Attraction and Extinction BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN I. Pity for the Unhappy, but Indulgence for the Happy II. Last Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil III. A Pen Is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent's Cart IV. A Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whitening V. A Night Behind Which There Is Day VI. The Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces