Les Miserables Volume Two
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2013
841 pages
978-1-84870-444-2 (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.
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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.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents of Volume 2
- Les Misérables: Volume 2
- Part Three: Marius (continued)
- Book 8: The noxious poor
- 1. Marius, looking for a girl with a hat, meets a man with a cap
- 2. A waif
- 3. Quadrifrons [120]
- 4. A rose in misery
- 5. The Judas of providence
- 6. The wild man in his lair
- 7. Strategy and tactics
- 8. The sunbeam in the hole
- 9. Jondrette weeps almost
- 10. Price of public cabriolets: two francs an hour
- 11. Offers of service by misery to grief
- 12. Use of M. Leblanc's five-franc piece
- 13. Solus cum solo, in loco remoto, non cogitabantur orare pater noster [123]
- 14. In which a police officer gives a lawyer two fisticuffs
- 15. Jondrette makes his purchase
- 16. In which will be found the song to an English air in fashion in 1832
- 17. Use of Marius' five-franc piece
- 18. Marius' two chairs face each other
- 19. The distractions of dark corners
- 20. The ambuscade
- 21. The victims should always be arrested first
- 22. The little boy who cried in the first volume
- Part Four: Saint Denis and idyll of the rue Plumet
- Book 1: A few pages of history
- 1. Well cut
- 2. Badly sewed
- 3. Louis Philippe
- 4. Crevices under the foundation
- 5. Facts from which history springs, and which history ignores
- 6. Enjolras and his lieutenants
- Book 2: Éponine
- 1. The field of the lark
- 2. Embryonic formation of crimes in the incubation of prisons
- 3. An apparition to Father Mabeuf
- 4. An apparition to Marius
- Book 3: The house in the rue Plumet
- 1. The secret house
- 2. Jean Valjean a National Guard
- 3. Foliis ac frondibus [148]
- 4. Change of grating
- 5. The rose discovers that she is an engine of war
- 6. The battle commences
- 7. To sadness, sadness and a half
- 8. The chain
- Book 4: Aid from below may be aid from above
- 1. Wound without, cure within
- 2. Mother Plutarch is not embarrassed on the explanation of a phenomenon
- Book 5: The end of which is unlike the beginning
- 1. Solitude and the barracks
- 2. Fears of Cosette
- 3. Enriched by the commentaries of Toussaint
- 4. A heart under a stone
- 5. Cosette after the letter
- 6. The old are made to go out when convenient
- Book 6: Little Gavroche
- 1. A malevolent trick of the wind
- 2. In which Little Gavroche takes advantage of Napoleon the Great
- 3. The fortunes and misfortunes of escape
- Book 7: Argot [157]
- 1. Origin
- 2. Roots
- 3. Argot which weeps and argot which laughs
- 4. The two duties: to watch and to hope
- Book 8: Enchantments and desolations
- 1. Sunshine
- 2. The stupefaction of complete happiness
- 3. Shadow commences
- 4. Cab rolls in English and yelps in argot
- 5. Things of the night
- 6. Marius becomes so real as to give Cosette his address
- 7. The old heart and young heart in presence
- Book 9: Where are they going?
- 1. Jean Valjean
- 2. Marius
- 3. M. Mabeuf
- Book 10: June 5th, 1832
- 1. The surface of the question
- 2. The bottom of the question
- 3. A burial: opportunity for rebirth
- 4. The ebullitions of former times
- 5. Originality of Paris
- Book 11: The atom fraternises with the hurricane
- 1. Some insight into the origin of Gavroche's poetry - influence of an Academician upon that poetry
- 2. Gavroche on the march
- 3. Just indignation of a barber
- 4. The child wonders at the old man
- 5. The old man
- 6. Recruits
- Book 12: Corinth
- 1. History of Corinth from its foundation
- 2. Preliminary gaiety
- 3. Night begins to gather over Grantaire
- 4. Attempt at consolation upon the Widow Hucheloup
- 5. Preparations
- 6. While waiting
- 7. The man recruited in the Rue des Billettes
- 8. Several interrogation points concerning one Le Cabuc, who perhaps was not Le Cabuc
- Book 13: Marius enters the shadow
- 1. From the Rue Plumet to the Quartier Saint Denis
- 2. Paris - an owl's eye view [186]
- 3. The extreme limit
- Book 14: The grandeurs of despair
- 1. The flag: first act
- 2. The flag: second act
- 3. Gavroche would have done better to accept Enjolras' carbine
- 4. The keg of powder
- 5. End of Jean Prouvaire's rhyme
- 6. The agony of death after the agony of life
- 7. Gavroche a profound calculator of distances
- Book 15: The rue L'homme armé
- 1. Blotter, Blabber
- 2. The gamin an enemy of light
- 3. While Cosette and Toussaint sleep
- 4. The excess of Gavroche's zeal
- Part Five: Jean Valjean
- Book 1: War between four walls
- 1. The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla of the Faubourg du Temple
- 2. What can be done in the abyss but to talk
- 3. Light and darkness
- 4. Five less, one more
- 5. What horizon is visible from the top of the barricade
- 6. Marius haggard, Javert laconic
- 7. The situation grows serious
- 8. The gunners produce a serious impression
- 9. Use of that old poacher skill, and that infallible shot which influenced the conviction of 1796
- 10. Dawn
- 11. The shot that misses nothing and kills nobody
- 12. Disorder a partisan of order
- 13. Gleams which pass
- 14. In which will be found the name of Enjolras' mistress
- 15. Gavroche outside
- 16. How brother becomes father
- 17. Mortuus pater filium moriturum expectat [207]
- 18. The vulture becomes prey
- 19. Jean Valjean takes his revenge
- 20. The dead are right and the living are not wrong
- 21. The heroes
- 22. Foot to foot
- 23. Orestes fasting and Pylades drunk
- 24. Prisoner
- Book 2: The intestine of Leviathan
- 1. The earth impoverished by the sea
- 2. The ancient history of the sewer
- 3. Bruneseau [214]
- 4. Details ignored
- 5. Present progress
- 6. Future progress
- Book 3: Mire, but soul
- 1. The cloaca and its surprises
- 2. Explanation
- 3. The man spun
- 4. He also bears his cross
- 5. For sand as well as women there is a finesse which is perfidy
- 6. The fontis
- 7. Sometimes we get aground when we expect to get ashore
- 8. The torn coat-tail
- 9. Marius seems to be dead to one who is a good judge
- 10. Return of the Prodigal Son - of his life
- 11. Commotion in the absolute
- 12. The grandfather
- Book 4: Javert off the track
- 1. Javert off the track
- Book 5: The grandson and the grandfather
- 1. In which we see the tree with the plate of zinc once more
- 2. Marius escaping from civil war, prepares for domestic war
- 3. Marius attacks
- 4. Mademoiselle Gillenormand at last thinks it not improper that Monsieur Fauchelevent should come in with something under his arm
- 5. Deposit your money rather in some forest than with some notary
- 6. The two old men do everything, each in his own way, that Cosette may be happy
- 7. The effects of dream mingled with happiness
- 8. Two men impossible to find
- Book 6: The white night
- 1. The 16th of February 1833
- 2. Jean Valjean still has his arm in a sling
- 3. The inseparable
- 4. Immortale jecur [236]
- Book 7: The last drop in the chalice
- 1. The seventh circle and the eighth heaven
- 2. The obscurities which a revelation may contain
- Book 8: The twilight wane
- 1. The basement room
- 2. Other steps backward
- 3. They remember the garden in the rue Plumet
- 4. Attraction and extinction
- Book 9: Supreme shadow, supreme dawn
- 1. Pity for the unhappy, but indulgence for the happy
- 2. The last flickerings of the exhausted lamp
- 3. A pen is heavy to him who lifted Fauchelevent's cart
- 4. A bottle of ink which serves only to whiten
- 5. Night behind which is dawn
- 6. Grass hides and rain blots out
- Notes to Les Misérables Volume 2
