Les Miserables, Wilbour Translation

Les Misérables is a classic French novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862. It follows the story of Jean Valjean, an ex-convict who is trying to make a new life for himself in 19th century France. Along the way, he encounters a variety of characters, including the police inspector Javert, the street urchin Gavroche, and the young girl Cosette. The novel is set against the backdrop of the June Rebellion of 1832, and explores themes of justice, mercy, and redemption. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest novels of all time.

By Victor Hugo · First published 1862 · Genre: Historical Fiction, Drama, Romance · 60 chapters

Contents

• 1: Marius Needy
• 1: Which Treats of the Manner of Entering the Convent
• 1: An Old Salon
• 1: Sister Simplice
• 1: Master Gorbeau
• 1: The Year 1817
• 1: The Convent as an Abstract Idea
• 1: Ninety Years Old and Thirty-two Teeth
• 1: What You Meet in Coming from Nivelles
• 1: One Mother Meets Another
• 1: The Water Question at Montfermeil
• 1: The Night of a Day's Tramp
• 1: A Group Which Almost Became Historic
• 1: Javert (?)
• 1: The Zigzags of Strategy
• 1: History of an Improvement in Jet-work
• 1: In What Mirror M
• 1: Petite Rue Picpus, No
• 1: Number 24601 Becomes Number 9430
• 1: M
• 1: Parvulus
• 2: Two Portraits Completed
• 2: It is Fortunate That Vehicles Can Cross the Bridge of Austerlitz
• 2: Like Master, Like Dwelling
• 2: Some of His Private Marks
• 2: Funeral Oration Upon Blondeau, by Bossuet
• 2: Madeleine
• 2: Prudence Commended to Wisdom
• 2: First Sketch of Two Equivocal Faces
• 2: A Nest for Owl and Wren
• 2: Shrewdness of Master Scaufflaire
• 2: One of the Red Spectres of That Time
• 2: Hougomont
• 2: In Which a Couple of Lines Will Be Read Which Came, Perhaps, from the Evil One
• 2: Fauchelevent Facing the Difficulty
• 2: The Obedience of Martin Verga
• 2: Double Quatuor
• 2: M
• 2: How Jean Can Become Champ
• 2: Fantine Happy
• 2: The Convent as a Historical Fact
• 2: Marius Poor
• 3: The Isth of June, Isi
• 3: Severities
• 3: Upon What Conditions We Can Respect the Past
• 3: A Tempest in a Brain
• 3: Showing That the Chain of the Iron Ring Must Needs Have Undergone a Certain Preparation to Be Thus Broken by One Blow of the Hammer
• 3: The Lark
• 3: Javert Satisfied
• 3: See the Plan of Paris of 172?
• 3: He is Agreeable
• 3: Men Must Have Wine and Horses Water
• 3: Good Bishop Hard Bishopric
• 3: Two Misfortunes Mingled Make Happiness
• 3: Untitled (?)
• 3: Four to Four
• 3: Luke Esprit
• 3: The Astonishments of Marius
• 3: The Heroism of Passive Obedience
• 3: Marius a Man

More by Victor Hugo

• Les Miserables (1862)
• Hernani (1830)
• Los miserables (1862)
• Notre-Dame De Paris (1831)
• Toilers of the Sea (1866)
• Hans of Iceland, Volume 1 (1823)
• The Last Days of a Condemned (1829)
• Hans of Iceland, Volume 2 (1866)
• All works by Victor Hugo