BOOK FOURTH—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON’S POWER
BOOK FIFTH—THE DESCENT
BOOK SIXTH—JAVERT
BOOK SEVENTH—THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR
BOOK EIGHTH—A COUNTER-BLOW
VOLUME II—COSETTE
BOOK FIRST—WATERLOO
BOOK SECOND—THE SHIP ORION
BOOK THIRD—ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN
BOOK FOURTH—THE GORBEAU HOVEL
BOOK FIFTH—FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK
BOOK SIXTH—LE PETIT-PICPUS
BOOK SEVENTH—PARENTHESIS
BOOK EIGHTH—CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM
VOLUME III—MARIUS
BOOK FIRST—PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM
BOOK SECOND—THE GREAT BOURGEOIS
BOOK THIRD—THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON
BOOK FOURTH—THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C
BOOK FIFTH—THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE
BOOK SIXTH—THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS
BOOK SEVENTH—PATRON MINETTE
BOOK EIGHTH—THE WICKED POOR MAN
VOLUME IV—SAINT-DENIS
BOOK FIRST—A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY
BOOK SECOND—ÉPONINE
BOOK THIRD—THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET
BOOK FOURTH—SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH
BOOK FIFTH—THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING
BOOK SIXTH—LITTLE GAVROCHE
BOOK SEVENTH—SLANG
BOOK EIGHTH—ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS
BOOK NINTH—WHITHER ARE THEY GOING?
BOOK TENTH—THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832
BOOK ELEVENTH—THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE
BOOK TWELFTH—CORINTHE
BOOK THIRTEENTH—MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW
BOOK FOURTEENTH—THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR
BOOK FIFTEENTH—THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ
VOLUME V—JEAN VALJEAN
BOOK FIRST—THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS
BOOK SECOND—THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN
BOOK THIRD—MUD BUT THE SOUL
BOOK FOURTH—JAVERT DERAILED
BOOK FIFTH—GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER
BOOK SIXTH—THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT
BOOK SEVENTH—THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP
BOOK EIGHTH—FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT
BOOK NINTH—SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN
LETTER TO M. DAELLI
FOOTNOTES:
Bookshelf
Bookcover
Frontpapers
Frontispiece Volume One
Titlepage Volume One
Titlepage Verso
The Comforter
The Fall
Awakened
Cossette Sweeping
Candlesticks Into the Fire
Father Champmathieu on Trial
Frontispiece Volume Two
Titlepage Volume Two
The Ship Orion, an Accident
The Gorbeau Hovel
The Black Hunt
Javert on the Hunt
The Resurrection
Royalist Bank-note
Frontispiece Volume Three
Titlepage Volume Three
Little Gavroche
Friends of the A B C
Excellence of Misfortune
Rose in Misery
Red Hot Chisel
Snatched up a Paving Stone
Frontispiece Volume Four
Titlepage Volume Four
A Street Orator
Code Table
Succor from Below
Cosette With Letter
Slang
The Grandeurs of Despair
Frontispiece Volume Five
Titlepage Volume Five
Last Drop from the Cup
The Twilight Decline
Darkness
LES MISÉRABLES
PREFACE
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 through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.
