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So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man thro...
- Flesch-Kincaid Level: 7
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Table of Contents
- Preface
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Volume I: Fantine
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Volume I: Fantine - Book I: A Just Man
- Book I: A Just Man - Chapter I: M. Myriel
- Book I: A Just Man - Chapter II: M. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome
- Book I: A Just Man - Chapter III: A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop
- Book I: A Just Man - Chapter IV: Works Corresponding to Words
- Book I: A Just Man - Chapter V: Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long
- Book I: A Just Man - Chapter VI: Who Guarded His House for Him
- Book I: A Just Man - Chapter VII: Cravatte
- Book I: A Just Man - Chapter VIII: Philosophy after Drinking
- Book I: A Just Man - Chapter IX: The Brother as Depicted by the Sister
- Book I: A Just Man - Chapter X: The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light
- Book I: A Just Man - Chapter XI: A Restriction
- Book I: A Just Man - Chapter XII: The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome
- Book I: A Just Man - Chapter XIII: What He Believed
- Book I: A Just Man - Chapter XIV: What He Thought
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Volume I: Fantine - Book II: The Fall
- Book II: The Fall - Chapter I: The Evening of a Day of Walking
- Book II: The Fall - Chapter II: Prudence Counselled to Wisdom
- Book II: The Fall - Chapter III: The Heroism of Passive Obedience
- Book II: The Fall - Chapter IV: Details Concerning the Cheese-dairies of Pontarlier
- Book II: The Fall - Chapter V: Tranquillity
- Book II: The Fall - Chapter VI: Jean Valjean
- Book II: The Fall - Chapter VII: The Interior of Despair
- Book II: The Fall - Chapter VIII: Billows and Shadows
- Book II: The Fall - Chapter IX: New Troubles
- Book II: The Fall - Chapter X: The Man Aroused
- Book II: The Fall - Chapter XI: What He Does
- Book II: The Fall - Chapter XII: The Bishop Works
- Book II: The Fall - Chapter XIII: Little Gervais
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Volume I: Fantine - Book III: In the Year 1817
- Book III: In the Year 1817 - Chapter I: The Year 1817
- Book III: In the Year 1817 - Chapter II: A Double Quartette
- Book III: In the Year 1817 - Chapter III: Four and Four
- Book III: In the Year 1817 - Chapter IV: Tholomyès Is so Merry That He Sings a Spanish Ditty
- Book III: In the Year 1817 - Chapter V: At Bombarda’s
- Book III: In the Year 1817 - Chapter VI: A Chapter in Which They Adore Each Other
- Book III: In the Year 1817 - Chapter VII: The Wisdom of Tholomyès
- Book III: In the Year 1817 - Chapter VIII: The Death of a Horse
- Book III: In the Year 1817 - Chapter IX: A Merry End to Mirth
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Volume I: Fantine - Book IV: To Confide is Sometimes to Deliver into a Person's Power
- Book IV: To Confide is Sometimes to Deliver into a Person's Power - Chapter I: One Mother Meets Another Mother
- Book IV: To Confide is Sometimes to Deliver into a Person's Power - Chapter II: First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures
- Book IV: To Confide is Sometimes to Deliver into a Person's Power - Chapter III: The Lark
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Volume I: Fantine - Book V: The Descent
- Book V: The Descent - Chapter I: The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets
- Book V: The Descent - Chapter II: Madeleine
- Book V: The Descent - Chapter III: Sums Deposited with Laffitte
- Book V: The Descent - Chapter IV: M. Madeleine in Mourning
- Book V: The Descent - Chapter V: Vague Flashes on the Horizon
- Book V: The Descent - Chapter VI: Father Fauchelevent
- Book V: The Descent - Chapter VII: Fauchelevent Becomes a Gardener in Paris
- Book V: The Descent - Chapter VIII: Madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs on Morality
- Book V: The Descent - Chapter IX: Madame Victurnien’s Success
- Book V: The Descent - Chapter X: Result of the Success
- Book V: The Descent - Chapter XI: Christus Nos Liberavit
- Book V: The Descent - Chapter XII: M. Bamatabois’s Inactivity
- Book V: The Descent - Chapter XIII: The Solution of Some Questions Connected with the Municipal Police
- Volume I: Fantine - Book VI: Javert
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Volume I: Fantine - Book VII: The Champmathieu Affair
- Book VII: The Champmathieu Affair - Chapter I: Sister Simplice
- Book VII: The Champmathieu Affair - Chapter II: The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire
- Book VII: The Champmathieu Affair - Chapter III: A Tempest in a Skull
- Book VII: The Champmathieu Affair - Chapter IV: Forms Assumed by Suffering During Sleep
- Book VII: The Champmathieu Affair - Chapter V: Hindrances
- Book VII: The Champmathieu Affair - Chapter VI: Sister Simplice Put to the Proof
- Book VII: The Champmathieu Affair - Chapter VII: The Traveller on His Arrival Takes Precautions for Departure
- Book VII: The Champmathieu Affair - Chapter VIII: An Entrance by Favor
- Book VII: The Champmathieu Affair - Chapter IX: A Place Where Convictions Are in Process of Formation
- Book VII: The Champmathieu Affair - Chapter X: The System of Denials
- Book VII: The Champmathieu Affair - Chapter XI: Champmathieu More and More Astonished
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Volume I: Fantine - Book VIII: A Counter-Blow
- Book VIII: A Counter-Blow - Chapter I: In What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair
- Book VIII: A Counter-Blow - Chapter II: Fantine Happy
- Book VIII: A Counter-Blow - Chapter III: Javert Satisfied
- Book VIII: A Counter-Blow - Chapter IV: Authority Reasserts Its Rights
- Book VIII: A Counter-Blow - Chapter V: A Suitable Tomb
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Volume I: Fantine - Book I: A Just Man
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Volume II: Cosette
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Volume II: Cosette - Book I: Waterloo
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter I: What Is Met with on the Way from Nivelles
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter II: Hougomont
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter III: The Eighteenth of June, 1815
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter IV: A
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter V: The Quid Obscurum of Battles
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter VI: Four O’clock in the Afternoon
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter VII: Napoleon in a Good Humor
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter VIII: The Emperor Puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter IX: The Unexpected
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter X: The Plateau of Mont-saint-jean
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter XI: A Bad Guide to Napoleon; A Good Guide to Bülow
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter XII: The Guard
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter XIII: The Catastrophe
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter XIV: The Last Square
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter XV: Cambronne
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter XVI: Quot Libras in Duce?
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter XVII: Is Waterloo to Be Considered Good?
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter XVIII: A Recrudescence of Divine Right
- Book I: Waterloo - Chapter XIX: The Battle-field at Night
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Volume II: Cosette - Book II: The Ship Orion
- Book II: The Ship Orion - Chapter I: Number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430
- Book II: The Ship Orion - Chapter II: In Which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, Which Are of the Devil’s Composition, Possibly
- Book II: The Ship Orion - Chapter III: The Ankle-chain Must Have Undergone a Certain Preparatory Manipulation to Be Thus Broken with a Blow from a Hammer
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Volume II: Cosette - Book III: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman
- Book III: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman - Chapter I: The Water Question at Montfermeil
- Book III: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman - Chapter II: Two Complete Portraits
- Book III: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman - Chapter III: Men Must Have Wine, and Horses Must Have Water
- Book III: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman - Chapter IV: Entrance on the Scene of a Doll
- Book III: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman - Chapter V: The Little One All Alone
- Book III: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman - Chapter VI: Which Possibly Proves Boulatruelle’s Intelligence
- Book III: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman - Chapter VII: Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark
- Book III: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman - Chapter VIII: The Unpleasantness of Receiving into One’s House a Poor Man Who May Be a Rich Man
- Book III: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman - Chapter IX: Thénardier and His Manœuvres
- Book III: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman - Chapter X: He Who Seeks to Better Himself May Render His Situation Worse
- Book III: Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman - Chapter XI: Number 9,430 Reappears, and Cosette Wins It in the Lottery
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Volume II: Cosette - Book IV: The Gorbeau Hovel
- Book IV: The Gorbeau Hovel - Chapter I: Master Gorbeau
- Book IV: The Gorbeau Hovel - Chapter II: A Nest for Owl and a Warbler
- Book IV: The Gorbeau Hovel - Chapter III: Two Misfortunes Make One Piece of Good Fortune
- Book IV: The Gorbeau Hovel - Chapter IV: The Remarks of the Principal Tenant
- Book IV: The Gorbeau Hovel - Chapter V: A Five-franc Piece Falls on the Ground and Produces a Tumult
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Volume II: Cosette - Book V: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack
- Book V: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack - Chapter I: The Zigzags of Strategy
- Book V: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack - Chapter II: It Is Lucky That the Pont D’austerlitz Bears Carriages
- Book V: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack - Chapter III: To Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727
- Book V: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack - Chapter IV: The Gropings of Flight
- Book V: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack - Chapter V: Which Would Be Impossible with Gas Lanterns
- Book V: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack - Chapter VI: The Beginning of an Enigma
- Book V: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack - Chapter VII: Continuation of the Enigma
- Book V: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack - Chapter VIII: The Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious
- Book V: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack - Chapter IX: The Man with the Bell
- Book V: For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack - Chapter X: Which Explains How Javert Got on the Scent
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Volume II: Cosette - Book VI: Le Petit-Picpus
- Book VI: Le Petit-Picpus - Chapter I: Number 62 Rue Petit-picpus
- Book VI: Le Petit-Picpus - Chapter II: The Obedience of Martin Verga
- Book VI: Le Petit-Picpus - Chapter III: Austerities
- Book VI: Le Petit-Picpus - Chapter IV: Gayeties
- Book VI: Le Petit-Picpus - Chapter V: Distractions
- Book VI: Le Petit-Picpus - Chapter VI: The Little Convent
- Book VI: Le Petit-Picpus - Chapter VII: Some Silhouettes of This Darkness
- Book VI: Le Petit-Picpus - Chapter VIII: Post Corda Lapides
- Book VI: Le Petit-Picpus - Chapter IX: A Century under a Guimpe
- Book VI: Le Petit-Picpus - Chapter X: Origin of the Perpetual Adoration
- Book VI: Le Petit-Picpus - Chapter XI: End of the Petit-picpus
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Volume II: Cosette - Book VII: Parenthesis
- Book VII: Parenthesis - Chapter I: The Convent as an Abstract Idea
- Book VII: Parenthesis - Chapter II: The Convent as an Historical Fact
- Book VII: Parenthesis - Chapter III: On What Conditions One Can Respect the Past
- Book VII: Parenthesis - Chapter IV: The Convent from the Point of View of Principles
- Book VII: Parenthesis - Chapter V: Prayer
- Book VII: Parenthesis - Chapter VI: The Absolute Goodness of Prayer
- Book VII: Parenthesis - Chapter VII: Precautions to Be Observed in Blame
- Book VII: Parenthesis - Chapter VIII: Faith, Law
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Volume II: Cosette - Book VIII: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them
- Book VIII: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them - Chapter I: Which Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent
- Book VIII: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them - Chapter II: Fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty
- Book VIII: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them - Chapter III: Mother Innocente
- Book VIII: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them - Chapter IV: In Which Jean Valjean Has Quite the Air of Having Read Austin Castillejo
- Book VIII: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them - Chapter V: It Is Not Necessary to Be Drunk in Order to Be Immortal
- Book VIII: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them - Chapter VI: Between Four Planks
- Book VIII: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them - Chapter VII: In Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don’t Lose the Card
- Book VIII: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them - Chapter VIII: A Successful Interrogatory
- Book VIII: Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them - Chapter IX: Cloistered
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Volume II: Cosette - Book I: Waterloo
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Volume III: Marius
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Volume III: Marius - Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom
- Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom - Chapter I: Parvulus
- Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom - Chapter II: Some of His Particular Characteristics
- Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom - Chapter III: He Is Agreeable
- Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom - Chapter IV: He May Be of Use
- Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom - Chapter V: His Frontiers
- Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom - Chapter VI: A Bit of History
- Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom - Chapter VII: The Gamin Should Have His Place in the Classifications of India
- Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom - Chapter VIII: In Which the Reader Will Find a Charming Saying of the Last King
- Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom - Chapter IX: The Old Soul of Gaul
- Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom - Chapter X: Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo
- Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom - Chapter XI: To Scoff, to Reign
- Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom - Chapter XII: The Future Latent in the People
- Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom - Chapter XIII: Little Gavroche
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Volume III: Marius - Book II: The Great Bourgeois
- Book II: The Great Bourgeois - Chapter I: Ninety Years and Thirty-two Teeth
- Book II: The Great Bourgeois - Chapter II: Like Master, like House
- Book II: The Great Bourgeois - Chapter III: Luc-esprit
- Book II: The Great Bourgeois - Chapter IV: A Centenarian Aspirant
- Book II: The Great Bourgeois - Chapter V: Basque and Nicolette
- Book II: The Great Bourgeois - Chapter VI: In Which Magnon and Her Two Children Are Seen
- Book II: The Great Bourgeois - Chapter VII: Rule: Receive No One Except in the Evening
- Book II: The Great Bourgeois - Chapter VIII: Two Do Not Make a Pair
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Volume III: Marius - Book III: The Grandfather and the Grandson
- Book III: The Grandfather and the Grandson - Chapter I: An Ancient Salon
- Book III: The Grandfather and the Grandson - Chapter II: One of the Red Spectres of That Epoch
- Book III: The Grandfather and the Grandson - Chapter III: Requiescant
- Book III: The Grandfather and the Grandson - Chapter IV: End of the Brigand
- Book III: The Grandfather and the Grandson - Chapter V: The Utility of Going to Mass, in Order to Become a Revolutionist
- Book III: The Grandfather and the Grandson - Chapter VI: The Consequences of Having Met a Warden
- Book III: The Grandfather and the Grandson - Chapter VII: Some Petticoat
- Book III: The Grandfather and the Grandson - Chapter VIII: Marble Against Granite
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Volume III: Marius - Book IV: The Friends of the A B C
- Book IV: The Friends of the A B C - Chapter I: A Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic
- Book IV: The Friends of the A B C - Chapter II: Blondeau's Funeral Oration by Bossuet
- Book IV: The Friends of the A B C - Chapter III: Marius’ Astonishments
- Book IV: The Friends of the A B C - Chapter IV: The Back Room of the Café Musain
- Book IV: The Friends of the A B C - Chapter V: Enlargement of Horizon
- Book IV: The Friends of the A B C - Chapter VI: Res Angusta
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Volume III: Marius - Book V: The Excellence of Misfortune
- Book V: The Excellence of Misfortune - Chapter I: Marius Indigent
- Book V: The Excellence of Misfortune - Chapter II: Marius Poor
- Book V: The Excellence of Misfortune - Chapter III: Marius Grown up
- Book V: The Excellence of Misfortune - Chapter IV: M. Mabeuf
- Book V: The Excellence of Misfortune - Chapter V: Poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery
- Book V: The Excellence of Misfortune - Chapter VI: The Substitute
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Volume III: Marius - Book VI: The Conjunction of Two Stars
- Book VI: The Conjunction of Two Stars - Chapter I: The Sobriquet: Mode of Formation of Family Names
- Book VI: The Conjunction of Two Stars - Chapter II: Lux Facta Est
- Book VI: The Conjunction of Two Stars - Chapter III: Effect of the Spring
- Book VI: The Conjunction of Two Stars - Chapter IV: Beginning of a Great Malady
- Book VI: The Conjunction of Two Stars - Chapter V: Divers Claps of Thunder Fall on Ma’am Bougon
- Book VI: The Conjunction of Two Stars - Chapter VI: Taken Prisoner
- Book VI: The Conjunction of Two Stars - Chapter VII: Adventures of the Letter U Delivered over to Conjectures
- Book VI: The Conjunction of Two Stars - Chapter VIII: The Veterans Themselves Can Be Happy
- Book VI: The Conjunction of Two Stars - Chapter IX: Eclipse
- Volume III: Marius - Book VII: Patron Minette
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Volume III: Marius - Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter I: Marius, While Seeking a Girl in a Bonnet, Encounters a Man in a Cap
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter II: Treasure Trove
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter III: Quadrifrons
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter IV: A Rose in Misery
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter V: A Providential Peep-hole
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter VI: The Wild Man in His Lair
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter VII: Strategy and Tactics
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter VIII: The Ray of Light in the Hovel
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter IX: Jondrette Comes near Weeping
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter X: Tariff of Licensed Cabs: Two Francs an Hour
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter XI: Offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter XII: The Use Made of M. Leblanc’s Five-franc Piece
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter XIII: Solus Cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabuntur Orare Pater Noster
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter XIV: In Which a Police Agent Bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter XV: Jondrette Makes His Purchases
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter XVI: In Which Will Be Found the Words to an English Air Which Was in Fashion in 1832
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter XVII: The Use Made of Marius’ Five-franc Piece
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter XVIII: Marius’ Two Chairs Form a Vis-a-vis
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter XIX: Occupying One’s Self with Obscure Depths
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter XX: The Trap
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter XXI: One Should Always Begin by Arresting the Victims
- Book VIII: The Wicked Poor Man - Chapter XXII: The Little One Who Was Crying in Volume Two
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Volume III: Marius - Book I: Paris Studied in Its Atom
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Volume IV: Saint-Denis
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Volume IV: Saint-Denis - Book I: A Few Pages of History
- Book I: A Few Pages of History - Chapter I: Well Cut
- Book I: A Few Pages of History - Chapter II: Badly Sewed
- Book I: A Few Pages of History - Chapter III: Louis Philippe
- Book I: A Few Pages of History - Chapter IV: Cracks Beneath the Foundation
- Book I: A Few Pages of History - Chapter V: Facts Whence History Springs and Which History Ignores
- Book I: A Few Pages of History - Chapter VI: Enjolras and His Lieutenants
- Volume IV: Saint-Denis - Book II: Éponine
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Volume IV: Saint-Denis - Book III: The House in the Rue Plumet
- Book III: The House in the Rue Plumet - Chapter I:The House with a Secret
- Book III: The House in the Rue Plumet - Chapter II: Jean Valjean as a National Guard
- Book III: The House in the Rue Plumet - Chapter III: Foliis Ac Frondibus
- Book III: The House in the Rue Plumet - Chapter IV: Change of Gate
- Book III: The House in the Rue Plumet - Chapter V: The Rose Perceives That It Is an Engine of War
- Book III: The House in the Rue Plumet - Chapter VI: The Battle Begun
- Book III: The House in the Rue Plumet - Chapter VII: To One Sadness Oppose a Sadness and a Half
- Book III: The House in the Rue Plumet - Chapter VIII: The Chain-gang
- Volume IV: Saint-Denis - Book IV: Succor from below May Turn out to Be Succor from on High
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Volume IV: Saint-Denis - Book V: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning
- Book V: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning - Chapter I: Solitude and the Barracks Combined
- Book V: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning - Chapter II: Cosette’s Apprehensions
- Book V: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning - Chapter III: Enriched with Commentaries by Toussaint
- Book V: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning - Chapter IV: A Heart Beneath a Stone
- Book V: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning - Chapter V: Cosette after the Letter
- Book V: The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning - Chapter VI: Old People Are Made to Go out Opportunely
- Volume IV: Saint-Denis - Book VI: Little Gavroche
- Volume IV: Saint-Denis - Book VII: Slang
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Volume IV: Saint-Denis - Book VIII: Enchantments and Desolations
- Book VIII: Enchantments and Desolations - Chapter I: Full Light
- Book VIII: Enchantments and Desolations - Chapter II: The Bewilderment of Perfect Happiness
- Book VIII: Enchantments and Desolations - Chapter III: The Beginning of Shadow
- Book VIII: Enchantments and Desolations - Chapter IV: A Cab Runs in English and Barks in Slang
- Book VIII: Enchantments and Desolations - Chapter V: Things of the Night
- Book VIII: Enchantments and Desolations - Chapter VI: Marius Becomes Practical Once More to the Extent of Giving Cosette His Address
- Book VIII: Enchantments and Desolations - Chapter VII: The Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each Other
- Volume IV: Saint-Denis - Book IX: Whither Are They Going
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Volume IV: Saint-Denis - Book X: The 5th of June, 1832
- Book X: The 5th of June, 1832 - Chapter I: The Surface of the Question
- Book X: The 5th of June, 1832 - Chapter II: The Root of the Matter
- Book X: The 5th of June, 1832 - Chapter III: A Burial; An Occasion to Be Born Again
- Book X: The 5th of June, 1832 - Chapter IV: The Ebullitions of Former Days
- Book X: The 5th of June, 1832 - Chapter V: Originality of Paris
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Volume IV: Saint-Denis - Book XI: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane
- Book XI: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane - Chapter I: Some Explanations with Regard to the Origin of Gavroche’s Poetry.
- Book XI: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane - Chapter II: Gavroche on the March
- Book XI: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane - Chapter III: Just Indignation of a Hair-dresser
- Book XI: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane - Chapter IV: The Child Is Amazed at the Old Man
- Book XI: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane - Chapter V: The Old Man
- Book XI: The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane - Chapter VI: Recruits
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Volume IV: Saint-Denis - Book XII: Corinthe
- Book XII: Corinthe - Chapter I: History of Corinthe from Its Foundation
- Book XII: Corinthe - Chapter II: Preliminary Gayeties
- Book XII: Corinthe - Chapter III: Night Begins to Descend upon Grantaire
- Book XII: Corinthe - Chapter IV: An Attempt to Console the Widow Hucheloup
- Book XII: Corinthe - Chapter V: Preparations
- Book XII: Corinthe - Chapter VI: Waiting
- Book XII: Corinthe - Chapter VII: The Man Recruited in the Rue Des Billettes
- Book XII: Corinthe - Chapter VIII: Many Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain Le Cabuc
- Volume IV: Saint-Denis - Book XIII: Marius Enters the Shadow
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Volume IV: Saint-Denis - Book XIV: The Grandeurs of Despair
- Book XIV: The Grandeurs of Despair - Chapter I: The Flag: Act First
- Book XIV: The Grandeurs of Despair - Chapter II: The Flag: Act Second
- Book XIV: The Grandeurs of Despair - Chapter III: Gavroche Would Have Done Better to Accept Enjolras’ Carbine
- Book XIV: The Grandeurs of Despair - Chapter IV: The Barrel of Powder
- Book XIV: The Grandeurs of Despair - Chapter V: End of the Verses of Jean Prouvaire
- Book XIV: The Grandeurs of Despair - Chapter VI: The Agony of Death after the Agony of Life
- Book XIV: The Grandeurs of Despair - Chapter VII: Gavroche as a Profound Calculator of Distances
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Volume IV: Saint-Denis - Book XV: The Rue de l'Homme Armé
- Book XV: The Rue de l'Homme Armé - Chapter I: A Drinker Is a Babbler
- Book XV: The Rue de l'Homme Armé - Chapter II: The Street Urchin an Enemy of Light
- Book XV: The Rue de l'Homme Armé - Chapter III: While Cosette and Toussaint Are Asleep
- Book XV: The Rue de l'Homme Armé - Chapter IV: Gavroche’s Excess of Zeal
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Volume IV: Saint-Denis - Book I: A Few Pages of History
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Volume V: Jean Valjean
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Volume V: Jean Valjean - Book I: The War between Four Walls
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter I: The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter II: What Is to Be Done in the Abyss If One Does Not Converse
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter III: Light and Shadow
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter IV: Minus Five, Plus One
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter V: The Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a Barricade
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter VI: Marius Haggard, Javert Laconic
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter VII: The Situation Becomes Aggravated
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter VIII: The Artillery-men Compel People to Take Them Seriously
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter IX: Employment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That Infallible Marksmanship Which Influenced the Condemnation of 1796
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter X: Dawn
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter XI: The Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter XII: Disorder a Partisan of Order
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter XIII: Passing Gleams
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter XIV: Wherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras’ Mistress
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter XV: Gavroche Outside
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter XVI: How from a Brother One Becomes a Father
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter XVII: Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter XVIII: The Vulture Become Prey
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter XIX: Jean Valjean Takes His Revenge
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter XX: The Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the Wrong
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter XXI: The Heroes
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter XXII: Foot to Foot
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter XXIII: Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk
- Book I: The War between Four Walls - Chapter XXIV: Prisoner
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Volume V: Jean Valjean - Book II: The Intestine of the Leviathan
- Book II: The Intestine of the Leviathan - Chapter I: The Land Impoverished by the Sea
- Book II: The Intestine of the Leviathan - Chapter II: Ancient History of the Sewer
- Book II: The Intestine of the Leviathan - Chapter III: Bruneseau
- Book II: The Intestine of the Leviathan - Chapter IV: Bruneseau (Continued)
- Book II: The Intestine of the Leviathan - Chapter V: Present Progress
- Book II: The Intestine of the Leviathan - Chapter VI: Future Progress
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Volume V: Jean Valjean - Book III: Mud but the Soul
- Book III: Mud but the Soul - Chapter I: The Sewer and Its Surprises
- Book III: Mud but the Soul - Chapter II: Explanation
- Book III: Mud but the Soul - Chapter III: The “Spun” Man
- Book III: Mud but the Soul - Chapter IV: He Also Bears His Cross
- Book III: Mud but the Soul - Chapter V: In the Case of Sand as in That of Woman, There Is a Fineness Which Is Treacherous
- Book III: Mud but the Soul - Chapter VI: The Fontis
- Book III: Mud but the Soul - Chapter VII: One Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is Disembarking
- Book III: Mud but the Soul - Chapter VIII: The Torn Coat-tail
- Book III: Mud but the Soul - Chapter IX: Marius Produces on Some One Who Is a Judge of the Matter, the Effect of Being Dead
- Book III: Mud but the Soul - Chapter X: Return of the Son Who Was Prodigal of His Life
- Book III: Mud but the Soul - Chapter XI: Concussion in the Absolute
- Book III: Mud but the Soul - Chapter XII: The Grandfather
- Volume V: Jean Valjean - Book IV: Javert Derailed
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Volume V: Jean Valjean - Book V: Grandson and Grandfather
- Book V: Grandson and Grandfather - Chapter I: In Which the Tree With the Zinc Plaster Appears Again
- Book V: Grandson and Grandfather - Chapter II: Marius, Emerging From Civil War, Makes Ready for Domestic War
- Book V: Grandson and Grandfather - Chapter III: Marius Attacked
- Book V: Grandson and Grandfather - Chapter IV: Mademoiselle Gillenormand Ends by No Longer Thinking It a Bad Thing That M. Fauchelevent Should Have Entered With Something Under His Arm
- Book V: Grandson and Grandfather - Chapter V: Deposit Your Money in a Forest Rather Than With a Notary
- Book V: Grandson and Grandfather - Chapter VI: The Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own Fashion, to Render Cosette Happy
- Book V: Grandson and Grandfather - Chapter VII: The Effects of Dreams Mingled With Happiness
- Book V: Grandson and Grandfather - Chapter VIII: Two Men Impossible to Find
- Volume V: Jean Valjean - Book VI: The Sleepless Night
- Volume V: Jean Valjean - Book VII: The Last Draught from the Cup
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Volume V: Jean Valjean - Book VIII: Fading Away of the Twilight
- Book VIII: Fading Away of the Twilight - Chapter I: The Lower Chamber
- Book VIII: Fading Away of the Twilight - Chapter II: Another Step Backwards
- Book VIII: Fading Away of the Twilight - Chapter III: They Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumet
- Book VIII: Fading Away of the Twilight - Chapter IV: Attraction and Extinction
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Volume V: Jean Valjean - Book IX: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn
- Book IX: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn - Chapter I: Pity for the Unhappy, but Indulgence for the Happy
- Book IX: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn - Chapter II: Last Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil
- Book IX: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn - Chapter III: A Pen Is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent’s Cart
- Book IX: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn - Chapter IV: A Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whitening
- Book IX: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn - Chapter V: A Night Behind Which There Is Day
- Book IX: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn - Chapter VI: The Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces
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Volume V: Jean Valjean - Book I: The War between Four Walls
- Letter to M. Daelli