Contents

INTRODUCTION

Part One: Fantine

I. AN UPRIGHT MAN

II. THE OUTCAST

III. IN THE YEAR 1817

IV. TO TRUST IS SOMETIMES TO SURRENDER

V. DEGRADATION

VI. JAVERT

VII. THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR

VIII. COUNTER-STROKE

Part Two: Cosette

I. WATERLOO

II. THE SHIP ORION

III. FULFILMENT OF A PROMISE

IV. THE GORBEAU TENEMENT

V. HUNT IN DARKNESS

VI. LE PETIT-PICPUS

VIII. CEMETERIES TAKE WHAT THEY ARE GIVEN

Part Three: Marius

I. PARIS IN MICROCOSM

II. A GRAND BOURGEOIS

III. GRANDFATHER AND GRANDSON

IV. THE ABC SOCIETY

V. THE VIRTUES OF MISFORTUNE

VI. CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS

VII. PATRON-MINETTE

VIII. THE NOXIOUS POOR

Part Four: The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue Saint-Denis

I. A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY

II. ÉPONINE

III. THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET

IV. HELP FROM BELOW MAY BE HELP FROM ABOVE

V. OF WHICH THE END DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING

VI. THE BOY GAVROCHE

VIII. ENCHANTMENT AND DESPAIR

IX. WHERE ARE THEY GOING?

X. 5 JUNE 1832

XI. THE STRAW IN THE WIND

XII. CORINTH

XIII. MARIUS ENTERS THE DARKNESS

XIV. THE GREATNESS OF DESPAIR

XV. IN THE RUE DE L’HOMME-ARMÉ

Part Five: Jean Valjean

I. WAR WITHIN FOUR WALLS

II. THE ENTRAILS OF THE MONSTER

III. MIRE, BUT THE SOUL

IV. JAVERT IN DISARRAY

V. GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER

VI. THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT

VII. THE BITTER CUP

VIII. THE FADING LIGHT

IX. SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN

APPENDIX A: The Convent as an Abstract Idea (Part Two, Book VII)

APPENDIX B: Argot (Part Four, Book VII)