Les Miserables Volume One
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2013
913 pages
978-1-84870-443-5 (ISBN)
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With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Charles E. Wilbour (1862).
One of the great classics of western literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description.
Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae.
The reader is also treated to the unforgettable descriptions of the Battle of Waterloo and Valjean's flight through the Paris sewers.
Volume 1 of 2
One of the great classics of western literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description.
Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae.
The reader is also treated to the unforgettable descriptions of the Battle of Waterloo and Valjean's flight through the Paris sewers.
Volume 1 of 2
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Content
- Intro
- General Introduction
- Historical Note
- Introduction
- Note on the Musical Version of Les Misérables
- Bibliography
- Contents of Volume 1
- Author's Preface
- Les Misérables: Volume 1
- Part One: Fantine
- Book 1: An upright man
- 1. M. Myriel
- 2. M. Myriel becomes Monseigneur Bienvenu
- 3. Good bishop - hard bishopric
- 4. Words answering words
- 5. How Monseigneur Bienvenu made his cassock last so long
- 6. How he protected his house
- 7. Cravatte
- 8. After-dinner philosophy
- 9. The brother portrayed by the sister
- 10. The bishop in the presence of an unknown light [6]
- 11. A qualification
- 12. Solitude of Monseigneur Bienvenu
- 13. What he believed
- 14. What he thought
- Book 2: The fall
- 1. The night of a day's tramp
- 2. Prudence commended to wisdom
- 3. The heroism of passive obedience
- 4. Some account of the dairies of Pontarlier
- 5. Tranquillity
- 6. Jean Valjean
- 7. The depths of despair
- 8. The waters and the shadow
- 9. New griefs
- 10. The man awakes
- 11. What he does
- 12. The bishop at work
- 13. Petit Gervais
- Book 3: In the year 1817
- 1. The year 1817 [12]
- 2. Double quatuor
- 3. Four to four
- 4. Tholomyès is so merry that he sings a Spanish song
- 5. At Bombarda's
- 6. A chapter of self-admiration
- 7. The wisdom of Tholomyès [16]
- 8. Death of a horse
- 9. Joyous end of joy
- Book 4: To entrust is sometimes to abandon
- 1. One mother meets another
- 2. First sketch of two equivocal faces
- 3. The Lark
- Book 5: The descent
- 1. History of an improvement in jet-work
- 2. Madeleine [21]
- 3. Moneys deposited with Laffitte
- 4. Monsieur Madeleine in mourning
- 5. Vague flashes on the horizon
- 6. Father Fauchelevent
- 7. Fauchelevent becomes a gardener at Paris
- 8. Madame Victurnien spends thirty francs on morality
- 9. Success of Madame Victurnien
- 10. Results of the success
- 11. Christus nos liberavit
- 12. The idleness of Monsieur Bamatabois
- 13. Solution of some questions of municipal police
- Book 6: Javert
- 1. The beginning of the rest
- 2. How Jean can become champ
- Book 7: The Champmathieu affair
- 1. Sister Simplice
- 2. Shrewdness of Master Scaufflaire
- 3. A tempest in a brain
- 4. Forms assumed by suffering during sleep
- 5. Clogs in the wheels
- 6. Sister Simplice put to the proof
- 7. The traveller arrives and provides for his return
- 8. Admission by favour
- 9. A place for arriving at convictions
- 10. The system of denegations
- 11. Champmathieu more and more astonished
- Book 8: Counterstroke
- 1. In what mirror M. Madeleine looks at his hair
- 2. Fantine happy
- 3. Javert satisfied
- 4. Authority resumes its sway
- 5. A fitting tomb
- Part Two: Cosette
- Book 1: Waterloo [27]
- 1. What you meet in coming from Nivelles
- 2. Hougomont
- 3. The 18th of June 1815
- 4. A
- 5. The quid obscurum of battles
- 6. Four o'clock in the afternoon
- 7. Napoleon in good humour
- 8. The emperor puts a question to the guide Lacoste
- 9. The unlooked for
- 10. The plateau of Mont Saint Jean
- 11. Sad guide for Napoleon
- good guide for Bulow
- 12. The guard
- 13. The catastrophe
- 14. The last square
- 15. Cambronne
- 16. Quot libras in duce?
- 17. Must we approve Waterloo?
- 18. Recrudescence of Divine Right
- 19. The field of battle at night
- Book 2: The ship Orion
- 1. Number 24601 becomes Number 9430
- 2. In which a couple of lines will be read which came, perhaps, from The Evil One
- 3. Showing that the chain of the iron ring must needs have undergone a certain preparation to be thus broken by one blow of the hammer
- Book 3: Fulfilment of the promise to the departed
- 1. The water question at Montfermeil
- 2. Two portraits completed
- 3. Men must have wine and horses water
- 4. A doll enters upon the scene
- 5. The little girl all alone
- 6. Which perhaps proves the intelligence of Boulatruelle
- 7. Cosette side by side with the unknown, in the darkness
- 8. Inconvenience of entertaining a poor man who is perhaps rich
- 9. Thénardier manoeuvring
- 10. Who seeks the best may find the worst
- 11. Number 9430 comes up again, and Cosette draws it
- Book 4: The old Gorbeau house
- 1. Master Gorbeau
- 2. A nest for owl and wren
- 3. Two misfortunes mingled make happiness
- 4. What the landlady discovered
- 5. A five-franc piece falling on the floor makes a noise
- Book 5: A dark chase needs a silent hound
- 1. The zigzags of strategy
- 2. It is fortunate that vehicles can cross the bridge of Austerlitz
- 3. See the plan of Paris of 1727
- 4. Groping for escape
- 5. Which would be impossible were the streets lighted with gas
- 6. Commencement of an enigma
- 7. The enigma continued
- 8. The enigma redoubles
- 9. The man with the bell
- 10. In which is explained how Javert lost the game
- Book 6: Petit picpus [55]
- 1. Petite Rue Picpus, No. 62
- 2. The Obedience of Martin Verga [56]
- 3. Severities
- 4. Gaieties
- 5. Distractions
- 6. The little convent
- 7. A few outlines in this shade
- 8. Post corda lapides [60]
- 9. A century under a guimpe
- 10. Origin of the Perpetual Adoration
- 11. End of the Petit Picpus
- Book 7: A parenthesis
- 1. The convent as an abstract idea
- 2. The convent as a historical fact
- 3. Upon what conditions we can respect the past
- 4. The convent viewed in the light of principle
- 5. Prayer
- 6. Absolute excellence of prayer
- 7. Precautions to be taken in censure
- 8. Faith - Law
- Book 8: Cemeteries take what is given them
- 1. Which treats of the manner of entering the convent
- 2. Fauchelevent facing the difficulty
- 3. Mother Innocent
- 4. In which Jean Valjean has quite the appearance of having read Austin Castillejo
- 5. It is not enough to be a drunkard to be immortal
- 6. In the narrow house
- 7. In which will be found the origin of the saying: Don't lose your card
- 8. Successful examination
- 9. The Close
- Part Three: Marius
- Book 1: Paris atomised
- 1. Parvulus [73]
- 2. Some of his private marks
- 3. He is agreeable
- 4. He may be useful
- 5. His frontiers
- 6. A scrap of history
- 7. The gamin will have his place among the classifications of India
- 8. In which will be found a charming pleasantry of the late king
- 9. The ancient soul of Gaul
- 10. Ecce Paris, ecce homo
- 11. Ridicule and reign
- 12. The future latent in the people
- 13. Little Gavroche [87]
- Book 2: The grand bourgeois
- 1. Ninety years old and thirty-two teeth
- 2. Like master, like dwelling
- 3. Luke Esprit
- 4. An inspiring centenarian
- 5. Basque and Nicolette
- 6. In which we see La Magnon and her two little ones
- 7. Rule: Never receive anybody except in the evening
- 8. Two do not make a pair
- Book 3: The grandfather and the grandson
- 1. An old salon [89]
- 2. One of the Red Spectres of that time
- 3. Requiescant [92]
- 4. End of the brigand
- 5. The utility of going to mass, to become revolutionary
- 6. What it is to have met a churchwarden
- 7. Some petticoat
- 8. Marble against granite
- Book 4: The friends of the ABC [95]
- 1. A group which almost became historic
- 2. Funeral oration upon Blondeau, by Bossuet
- 3. The astonishment of Marius
- 4. The back room of the Café Musain
- 5. Enlargement of the horizon
- 6. Res Angusta [108]
- Book 5: The excellence of misfortune
- 1. Marius needy [109]
- 2. Marius poor
- 3. Marius a man
- 4. M. Mabeuf
- 5. Poverty a good neighbour of misery
- 6. The supplanter
- Book 6: The conjunction of two stars
- 1. The nickname: mode of formation of family names
- 2. Lux facta est [112]
- 3. Effect of spring
- 4. Commencement of a great distemper
- 5. Sundry thunderbolts fall upon Ma'am Bougon
- 6. Taken prisoner
- 7. Adventures of the letter U abandoned to conjecture
- 8. Even the Invalides may be lucky
- 9. An eclipse
- Book 7: Patron Minette
- 1. The mines and the miners
- 2. The lowest depth
- 3. Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous and Montparnasse
- 4. Composition of the band
- Notes to Les Misérables Volume 1
