Misérables, Volume 1

by Victor Hugo

71 chapters13h 45mEnglish1887

About this book

This is book 1 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people up. Hooray. (Summary by smileyman457)

Chapters (70)

1Bk 01, ch. 01: M. Myriel

423

2Bk 01, ch. 02: M. Myriel becomes M. Welcome

698

3Bk 01, ch. 03: A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop

294

4Bk 01, ch. 04: Works corresponding to Words

1066

5Bk 01, ch. 05: Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long

407

6Bk 01, ch. 06: Who guarded his House for him

784

7Bk 01, ch. 07: Cravatte

492

8Bk 01, ch. 08: Philosophy after Drinking

536

9Bk 01, ch. 09: The Brother as depicted by the Sister

529

10Bk 01, ch. 10: The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light

2119

11Bk 01, ch. 11: A Restriction

651

12Bk 01, ch. 12: The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome

457

13Bk 01, ch. 13: What he believed

640

14Bk 01, ch. 14: What he thought

429

15Bk 02, ch. 01: The Evening of a Day of Walking

1681

16Bk 02, ch. 02: Prudence counselled to Wisdom

652

17Bk 02, ch. 03: The Heroism of Passive Obedience

866

18Bk 02, ch. 04: Details concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier

537

19Bk 02, ch. 05: Tranquillity

226

20Bk 02, ch. 06: Jean Valjean

864

21Bk 02, ch. 07: The Interior of Despair

1103

22Bk 02, ch. 08: Billows and Shadows

459

23Bk 02, ch. 09: New Troubles

225

24Bk 02, ch. 10: The Man aroused

521

25Bk 02, ch. 11: What he does

683

26Bk 02, ch. 12: The Bishop works

543

27Bk 02, ch. 13: Little Gervais

1532

28Bk 03, ch. 01: The Year 1817

1188

29Bk 03, ch. 02: A Double Quartette

680

30Bk 03, ch. 03: Four and Four

531

31Bk 03, ch. 04: Tholomyes is so Merry that he sings a Spanish Ditty

378

32Bk 03, ch. 05: At Bombardas

430

33Bk 03, ch. 06: A Chapter in which they adore Each Other

222

34Bk 03, ch. 07: The Wisdom of Tholomyes

898

35Bk 03, ch. 08: The Death of a Horse

349

36Bk 03, ch. 09: A Merry End to Mirth

410

37Bk 04, ch. 01: One Mother meets Another Mother

1137

38Bk 04, ch. 02: First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures

311

39Bk 04, ch. 03: The Lark

373

40Bk 05, ch. 01: The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets

242

41Bk 05, ch. 02: Madeleine

531

42Bk 05, ch. 03: Sums deposited with Laffitte

438

43Bk 05, ch. 04: M. Madeleine in Mourning

354

44Bk 05, ch. 05: Vague Flashes on the Horizon

845

45Bk 05, ch. 06: Father Fauchelevent

411

46Bk 05, ch. 07: Fauchelevent becomes a Gardener in Paris

255

47Bk 05, ch. 08: Madame Victurnien expends Thirty Francs on Morality

449

48Bk 05, ch. 09: Madame Victurnien's Success

388

49Bk 05, ch. 10: Result of the Success

756

50Bk 05, ch. 11: Christus nos Liberavit

184

51Bk 05, ch. 12: M. Bamatabois's Inactivity

387

52Bk 05, ch. 13: The Solution of Some Questions connected with the Municipal Police

1571

53Bk 06, ch. 01: The Beginning of Repose

628

54Bk 06, ch. 02: How Jean may become Champ

1410

55Bk 07, ch. 01: Sister Simplice

581

56Bk 07, ch. 02: The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire

743

57Bk 07, ch. 03: A Tempest in a Skull

2929

58Bk 07, ch. 04: Forms assumed by Suffering during Sleep

512

59Bk 07, ch. 05: Hindrances

1359

60Bk 07, ch. 06: Sister Simplice put to the Proof

878

61Bk 07, ch. 07: The Traveller on his Arrival takes Precautions for Departure

586

62Bk 07, ch. 08: An Entrance by Favor

428

63Bk 07, ch. 09: A Place where Convictions are in Process of Formation

1255

64Bk 07, ch. 10: The System of Denials

1291

65Bk 07, ch. 11: Champmathieu more and more Astonished

644

66Bk 08, ch. 01: In what Mirror M. Madeleine contemplates his Hair

393

67Bk 08, ch. 02: Fantine Happy

673

68Bk 08, ch. 03: Javert Satisfied

630

69Bk 08, ch. 04: Authority reasserts its Rights

595

70Bk 08, ch. 05: A Suitable Tomb

825

Misérables, Volume 1

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