Les Miserables by Thirlwell, Adam, Rose, Julie, Hugo, Victor -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Contents Biographical Note Chronology Title Page Introduction by Adam Thirlwell Translator’s Preface Epigraph Part One: Fantine

Book One. A Just Man

I. Monsieur Myriel II. Monsieur Myriel Becomes Monseigneur Bienvenu III. A Good Bishop for a Hard Bishopric IV. He Puts His Money where his Mouth Is V. How Monseigneur Bienvenu made His Cassocks Last Too Long VI. How He Protected His House VII. Cravatte VIII. Philosophy After a Drink or Two IX. The Brother as the Sister Tells it X. The Bishop Before an Unknown Light XI. A Qualification XII. Monseigneur Bienvenu’s Solitude XIII. What He Believed XIV. What He Thought

Book Two. The Fall

I. The Night After a Day’s Walk II. Prudence is Recommended to Wisdom III. The Heroism of Passive Obedience IV. The Cheesemakers of Pontarlier V. Tranquillity VI. Jean Valjean VII. Despair From the Inside VIII. The Dark and the Deep IX. Fresh Grievances X. The Man Wakes Up XI. What He does Next XII. The Bishop at Work XIII. Petit-Gervais

Book Three. In The Year 1817

I. The Year 1817 II. A Double Foursome III. Four By Four IV. Tholomy’s is So Cheery He Sings a Spanish Ditty V. At Bombarda’s VI. A Chapter Where Everyone Adores One Another VII. The Wisdom of Tholomyès VIII. Death of a Horse IX. Happy Ending to Happiness

Book Four. To Entrust is Sometimes to Abandon

I. One Mother Meets Another II. Initial Sketch of Two Shady Characters III. The Lark

Book Five. The Descent

I. A History of Progress in Black Glass Beads II. Madeleine III. Sums Deposited With Laffitte IV. Monsieur Madeleine in Mourning V. Dim Flashes of Lightning on the Horizon VI. Father Fauchelevent VII. Fauchelevent Becomes a Gardener in Paris VIII. Madame Victurnien Spends Thirty-Five Francs On Morality IX. Madame Victurnien’s Success X. Continued Success XI. Christus Nos Liberavit XII. The Idleness of Monsieur Bamatabois XIII. The Answer to Some of the Municipal Police’s Questions

Book Six. Javert

I. The Beginning of Rest II. How Jean can Turn Into Champ

Book Seven. The Champmathieu Affair

I. Sister Simplice II. The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire III. A Storm On The Brain IV. Forms Suffering Takes During Sleep V. A Spoke in The Wheels VI. Sister Simplice is Put to The Test VII. The Traveller Arrives Only to Get Ready to Leave Again VIII. Preferential Admission IX. A Place Where Convictions Are About to Shape Up X. The Strategy of Denial XI. Champmathieu More and More Amazed

Book Eight. Aftershock

I. In What Mirror Monsieur Madeleine Looks At His Hair II. Fantine Happy III. Javert Satisfied IV. Authority Takes Back its Rights V. A Suitable Grave

Part Two: Cosette

Book One. Waterloo

I. What You Meet with when You Come From Nivelles II. Hougoumont III. June 18, 1815 IV. A V. The Quid Obscurum of Battles VI. Four O’Clock in The Afternoon VII. NapoléOn in a Good Mood VIII. The Emperor Puts a Question to Lacoste, The Guide IX. The Unexpected X. The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean XI. Bad Guide For Napoléon, Good Guide For BüLow XII. The Guard XIII. The Catastrophe XIV. The Last Square Xv. Cambronne XVI. Quot Libras in Duce? XVII. Do We have to Think Waterloo was a Good Thing? XVIII. A Fresh Bout of Divine Right XIX. The Battlefield by Night

Book Two. The Ship Orion

I. Number 24601 Becomes Number 9430 II. In Which You Will Read Two Lines of Verse That Are Perhaps The Devil’s III. How The Chain on the Shackles Must have Undergone Preparatory Treatment to be Shattered Like That With One Whack of The Hammer

Book Three. Keeping The Promise made to The Dead Woman

I. The Issue of Water at Montfermeil II. Two Portraits Completed III. Men must have Wine and Horses Water IV. A Doll Makes its Entrance V. A Little Girl All On Her Own VI. Which Perhaps Proves Boulatruelle’s Intelligence VII. Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark VIII. Unpleasantness of Putting Up a Pauper Who Might Just be Rich IX. Thénardier in Operation X. Who Looks for the Best May Find The Worst XI. The Number 9430 Comes Up Again And Wins Cosette The Lottery

Book Four. The Old Gorbeau Slum

I. Maître Gorbeau II. Nest For Owl And Warbler III. Mix Two Unhappy People Together And You Get Happiness IV. What the Chief Tenant Noted V. When it Falls On the Ground a Five-Franc Coin Makes a Racket

Book Five. A Mute Pack of Hounds For a Dirty Hunt

I. The Zigzags of Strategy II. It is a Good Thing the Austerlitz Bridge Takes Vehicles III. See The 1727 Map of Paris IV. Tentative Attempts At Escape V. Which Would be Impossible By Gaslight VI. Beginning of An Enigma VII. The Enigma Goes On VIII. The Enigma Intensifies IX. The Man With The Bell X. In Which it is Explained How Javert Came Up Empty

Book Six. Petit-Picpus

I. Petite Rue Picpus, No. 62 II. The Rule of Martin Verga III. The Austerities IV. Fun V. Entertainment VI. The Little Convent VII. A Few Silhouettes in The Shadows VIII. Post Corda Lapides IX. A Century Under a Wimple X. Origins of Perpetual Adoration XI. End of The Petit-Picpus

Book Seven. A Parenthesis

I. The Convent as an Abstract Idea II. The Convent as Historical Fact III. On What Conditions We can Respect The Past IV. The Convent from the Point of View of Principles V. Prayer VI. Absolute Goodness of Prayer VII. Precautions to Take in Laying Blame VIII. Faith, Law

Book Eight. Cemeteries Take What They Are Given

I. In Which The Way to Enter a Convent is Dealt With II. Fauchelevent Confronted With a Problem III. Mother Innocent IV. In Which Jean Valjean Looks as Though He Has Read Austin Castillejo V. It’s Not Enough to be a Drunk to be Immortal VI. Between Four Planks VII. In Which we find the Origins of The Saying: Don’T Lose Your Pass VIII. A Successful Interrogation IX. Enclosure

Part Three: Marius

Book One. Paris Studied Down to its Minutest Atom

I. Parvulus II. A Few of His Distinguishing Marks III. He is Nice IV. He Can be Useful V. His Boundaries VI. A Bit of History VII. The Gamin would have his Place in The Caste System of India VIII. In Which You Will Read a Delightful Saying of The King’s IX. The Old Soul of Gaul X. Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo XI. Railing, Reigning XII. The Future Latent in The People XIII. Petit-Gavroche

Book Two. The Grand Bourgeois

I. Ninety Years Old and All Thirty-Two Teeth II. Like Master, Like Abode III. Luc-Esprit IV. An Aspiring Centenarian V. Basque and Nicolette VI. In Which We Catch a Glimpse of La Magnon and Her Two Little Boys VII. Golden Rule: Only Receive Visitors in The Evening VIII. Two Do Not Make a Pair

Book Three. Grandfather and Grandson

I. An Old-World Salon II. One of The Red Ghosts of The Time III. Requiescant—R.I.P. IV. End of The Brigand V. The Usefulness of Going to Mass If You Want to be a Revolutionary VI. What it is to Have Met a Churchwarden VII. A Bit of Skirt VIII. Marble Versus Granite

Book Four. Friends of The Abc

I. A Group That Nearly Became History II. Blondeau’s Funeral Oration, By Bossuet III. The Amazement of Marius IV. The Back Room of The Café Musain V. The Horizon Expands VI. Res Angusta

Book Five. The Virtues of Adversity

I. Marius Destitute II. Marius Poor III. Marius Grown Up IV. Monsieur Mabeuf V. Poverty, Misery’s Good Neighbour VI. The Substitute

Book Six. The Conjunction of Two Stars

I. The Nickname As a Way of Forming Family Names II. Lux Facta Est III. The Effect of Spring IV. Beginning of a Great Sickness V. Sundry Thunderbolts Fall On Ma Bougon VI. Taken Prisoner VII. Adventures of The Letter U Open to Conjecture VIII. Even War Invalids Can be Happy IX. Eclipse

Book Seven. Patron-Minette

I. Mines and Miners II. The Dregs III. Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse IV. Composition of The Troupe

Book Eight. The Bad Pauper

I. Marius Looks For a Girl in a Hat and Meets a Man in a Cap II. A Find III. Quadrifrons IV. A Rose in Misery V. The Judas of Providence VI. Feral Man in His Lair VII. Strategies and Tactics VIII. A Ray of Light in The Rathole IX. Jondrette Very Nearly Weeps X. Rates For Cabs: Two Francs An Hour XI. Misery Offers Pain its Services XII. Use of Monsieur Leblanc’s Five-Franc Piece XIII. Solus Cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabantur Orare Pater Noster XIV. Where a Police Officer Gives a Lawyer a Couple of Punches XV. Jondrette Does His Shopping XVI. Where You Will Find The Words of An English Tune Fashionable in 1832 XVII. Marius’s Five-Franc Piece Put to Use XVIII. The Face-Off of Marius’s Two Chairs XIX. Dealing With The Darkest Depths XX. The Ambush XXI. You Should Always Arrest The Victims First XXII. The Little Boy Who Cried Out in Part Three

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

Book One. A Few Pages of History

I. Well Cut II. Badly Stitched Together III. Louis-Philippe IV. Cracks Beneath The Foundation V. Deeds From Which History Emerges and Which History Ignores VI. Enjolras and His Lieutenants

Book Two. Éponine

I. The Lark’s Field II. Embryonic Development of Crimes in Prison Incubators III. Father Mabeuf’s Apparition IV. Marius’s Apparition

Book Three. The House in The Rue Plumet

I. The House With a Secret Entrance II. Jean Valjean As a National Guard III. Foliis Ac Frondibus IV. Gate Change V. The Rose Realizes She is An Engine of War VI. The Battle Begins VII. Sadness, and More Sadness VIII. The Chain Gang

Book Four. Help From Below May be Help From Above

I. Wound Without, Healing Within II. Mother Plutarch Doesn’t Mind Explaining a Phenomenon

Book Five. Whose End is Nothing Like its Beginning

I. Loneliness and the Barracks Combined II. Cosette’s Fears III. Embellished By Toussaint’s Comments IV. A Heart Under a Stone V. Cosette, After The Letter VI. The Old Are made For Going Out At The Right Moment

Book Six. Petit-Gavroche

I. Nasty Trick of The Wind II. In Which Petit-Gavroche Puts Napoléon The Great to Good Use III. The Ups and Downs of Escape

Book Seven. Slang

I. Origins II. Roots III. Slang That Cries and Slang That Laughs IV. The Two Duties: to Watch and to Hope

Book Eight. Enchantment and Desolation

I. Broad Daylight II. The Giddiness of Complete Happiness III. The Beginning of a Shadow IV. A Cab Rolls in English and Yelps Like a Mutt in Slang V. Things of The Night VI. Marius Falls to Earth and Gives Cosette His Address VII. Old Heart and Young Heart Face-To-Face

Book Nine. Where Are They Going?

I. Jean Valjean II. Marius III. Monsieur Mabeuf

Book Ten. June 5, 1832

I. The Issue On The Surface II. The Heart of The Matter III. A Burial: An Occasion For Rebirth IV. The Seething of Days Gone By V. Originality of Paris

Book Eleven. The Atom Fraternizes With The Hurricane

I. Some Insights Into The Origins of Gavroche’s Poetry—Influence of An Academician On This Poetry II. Gavroche On The March III. A Wigmaker’s Just Indignation IV. The Boy Marvels At The Old Man V. The Old Man VI. Recruits

Book Twelve. Corinthe

I. History of Corinthe From its Foundation II. Preliminary Gaieties III. Night Begins to Fall On Grantaire IV. An Attempt At Consoling Widow Hucheloup V. Preparations VI. While Waiting VII. The Man Recruited in The Rue Des Billettes VIII. Several Question Marks Regarding a Man Named Le Cabuc Who Was Perhaps Not Le Cabuc

Book Thirteen. Marius Steps Into The Shadows

I. From the Rue Plumet to The Quartier Saint-Denis II. Paris As The Owl Flies III. The Extreme Edge

Book Fourteen. The Grandeurs of Despair

I. The Flag—Act One II. The Flag—Act Two III. Gavroche Would Have Done Better to Accept Enjolras’ Carbine IV. The Powder Keg V. End of Jean Prouvaire’s Poem VI. The Agony of Death After The Agony of Life VII. Gavroche a Profound Calculator of Distances

Book Fifteen. The Rue De L’Homme-Armé

I. A Blabber of a Blotter II. The Kid as the Enemy of The Enlightenment III. While Cosette and Toussaint Are Sleeping IV. Gavroche’s Excessive Zeal

Part Five: Jean Valjean

Book One. War Between Four Walls

I. The Charybdis of The Faubourg Saint-Antoine and the Scylla of The Faubourg Du Temple II. What is There to Do in a Bottomless Pit But Talk? III. Brightening and Darkening IV. Five Fewer, One More V. The View from the Top of the Barricade VI. Marius Haggard, Javert Laconic VII. The Situation Gets Worse VIII. The Gunners Get Themselves Taken Seriously IX. Putting That Old Poacher’s Skill to Use Along With The Infallible Shot That Influenced The 1796 Conviction X. Daybreak XI. The Gunshot That Misses Nothing But Kills No One XII. Disorder, a Supporter of Order XIII. Passing Glimmers XIV. In Which You Will Read The Name of Enjolras’ Mistress XV. Gavroche Outside XVI. How You Go From Being a Brother to a Father XVII. Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat XVIII. The Vulture Turns Into The Prey XIX. Jean Valjean Gets His Revenge XX. The Dead Are Right But The Living Are Not Wrong XXI. Heroes XXII. Inch By Inch XXIII. Orestes On a Fast and Pylades Drunk XXIV. Prisoner

Book Two. Leviathan’s Bowels

I. Land Impoverished By The Sea II. The Ancient History of The Sewer III. Bruneseau IV. Details Nobody Knows V. Current Progress VI. Future Progress

Book Three. It May be Muck, But it is Still The Soul

I. The Cloaca and its Surprises II. Explanation III. The Man Tailed IV. He, Too, Bears His Cross V. With Sand As With Women, There is a Kind of Fineness That is Perfidious VI. The Subsidence VII. Sometimes We Have Run Aground When We Think We Have Landed VIII. The Torn Bit of Coat IX. Marius Looks to be Dead to One Who Knows X. Return of The Son Prodigal With His Life XI. The Absolute, Rocked XII. The Grandfather

Book Four. Javert Derailed

I. Javert Derailed

Book Five. Grandson and Grandfather

I. In Which We Once More See The Tree With The Zinc Plaster II. Marius, Emerging From Civil War, Gears Up For Domestic War III. Marius Attacks IV. Mademoiselle Gillenormand Winds Up Deciding it is Not Such a Bad Thing That Monsieur Fauchelevent Came With Something Under His Arm V. You Are Better Off Putting Your Money in a Certain Forest Than Leaving it With a Certain Notary VI. The Two Old Men Do All They Can, Each in His Own Way, to See That Cosette is Happy VII. Dream Effects Fusing Into Happiness VIII. Two Men Who Can’t be Found

Book Six. A Sleepless Night

I. February 16, 1833 II. Jean Valjean Still Has His Arm in a Sling III. The Inseparable IV. Immortale Jecur

Book Seven. The Last Drop in The Chalice

I. The Seventh Circle Eighth Heaven II. The Obscurities a Revelation May Contain

Book Eight. Dusk Falls

I. The Room Down Below II. Other Steps Back III. They Remember The Garden in The Rue Plumet IV. Attraction and Extinguishment

Book Nine. Supreme Darkness, Supreme Dawn

I. Pity For The Unhappy, But Indulgence For The Happy II. Last Flickerings of a Lamp With No Oil III. A Feather Crushes The Man Who Lifted Fauchelevent’s Cart IV. Bottle of Ink That Only Manages to Whiten V. Night With Day Behind it VI. The Grass Hides and the Rain Erases

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