Les Misérables

LES MISÉRABLES

By Victor Hugo

Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood

Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place

New York Copyright 1887

Contents

LES MISÉRABLES

PREFACE✦

VOLUME I—FANTINE✦

BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN✦

CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL✦

CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME✦

CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP✦

CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS✦

CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG✦

CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM✦

CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE✦

CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING✦

CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER✦

CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT✦

CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION✦

CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME✦

CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED✦

CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT✦

BOOK SECOND—THE FALL✦

CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING✦

CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM✦

CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE✦

CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER✦

CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY✦

CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN✦

CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR✦

CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS✦

CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES✦

CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED✦

CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES✦

CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS✦

CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS✦

BOOK THIRD—IN THE YEAR 1817✦

CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817✦

CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE✦

CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR✦

CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY✦

CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA’S✦

CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER✦

CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS✦

CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE✦

CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH✦