Misérables, Volume 1

Author(s)

• Victor Hugo

This is book 1 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people up. Hooray. (Summary by smileyman457)

1. Preface
2. Bk 01, ch. 01: M. Myriel
3. Bk 01, ch. 02: M. Myriel becomes M. Welcome
4. Bk 01, ch. 03: A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop
5. Bk 01, ch. 04: Works corresponding to Words
6. Bk 01, ch. 05: Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long
7. Bk 01, ch. 06: Who guarded his House for him
8. Bk 01, ch. 07: Cravatte
9. Bk 01, ch. 08: Philosophy after Drinking
10. Bk 01, ch. 09: The Brother as depicted by the Sister
11. Bk 01, ch. 10: The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light
12. Bk 01, ch. 11: A Restriction
13. Bk 01, ch. 12: The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome
14. Bk 01, ch. 13: What he believed
15. Bk 01, ch. 14: What he thought
16. Bk 02, ch. 01: The Evening of a Day of Walking
17. Bk 02, ch. 02: Prudence counselled to Wisdom
18. Bk 02, ch. 03: The Heroism of Passive Obedience
19. Bk 02, ch. 04: Details concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier
20. Bk 02, ch. 05: Tranquillity
21. Bk 02, ch. 06: Jean Valjean
22. Bk 02, ch. 07: The Interior of Despair
23. Bk 02, ch. 08: Billows and Shadows
24. Bk 02, ch. 09: New Troubles
25. Bk 02, ch. 10: The Man aroused
26. Bk 02, ch. 11: What he does
27. Bk 02, ch. 12: The Bishop works
28. Bk 02, ch. 13: Little Gervais
29. Bk 03, ch. 01: The Year 1817
30. Bk 03, ch. 02: A Double Quartette
31. Bk 03, ch. 03: Four and Four
32. Bk 03, ch. 04: Tholomyes is so Merry that he sings a Spanish Ditty
33. Bk 03, ch. 05: At Bombardas
34. Bk 03, ch. 06: A Chapter in which they adore Each Other
35. Bk 03, ch. 07: The Wisdom of Tholomyes
36. Bk 03, ch. 08: The Death of a Horse
37. Bk 03, ch. 09: A Merry End to Mirth
38. Bk 04, ch. 01: One Mother meets Another Mother
39. Bk 04, ch. 02: First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures
40. Bk 04, ch. 03: The Lark
41. Bk 05, ch. 01: The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets
42. Bk 05, ch. 02: Madeleine
43. Bk 05, ch. 03: Sums deposited with Laffitte
44. Bk 05, ch. 04: M. Madeleine in Mourning
45. Bk 05, ch. 05: Vague Flashes on the Horizon
46. Bk 05, ch. 06: Father Fauchelevent
47. Bk 05, ch. 07: Fauchelevent becomes a Gardener in Paris
48. Bk 05, ch. 08: Madame Victurnien expends Thirty Francs on Morality
49. Bk 05, ch. 09: Madame Victurnien's Success
50. Bk 05, ch. 10: Result of the Success
51. Bk 05, ch. 11: Christus nos Liberavit
52. Bk 05, ch. 12: M. Bamatabois's Inactivity
53. Bk 05, ch. 13: The Solution of Some Questions connected with the Municipal Police
54. Bk 06, ch. 01: The Beginning of Repose
55. Bk 06, ch. 02: How Jean may become Champ
56. Bk 07, ch. 01: Sister Simplice
57. Bk 07, ch. 02: The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire
58. Bk 07, ch. 03: A Tempest in a Skull
59. Bk 07, ch. 04: Forms assumed by Suffering during Sleep
60. Bk 07, ch. 05: Hindrances
61. Bk 07, ch. 06: Sister Simplice put to the Proof
62. Bk 07, ch. 07: The Traveller on his Arrival takes Precautions for Departure
63. Bk 07, ch. 08: An Entrance by Favor
64. Bk 07, ch. 09: A Place where Convictions are in Process of Formation
65. Bk 07, ch. 10: The System of Denials
66. Bk 07, ch. 11: Champmathieu more and more Astonished
67. Bk 08, ch. 01: In what Mirror M. Madeleine contemplates his Hair
68. Bk 08, ch. 02: Fantine Happy
69. Bk 08, ch. 03: Javert Satisfied
70. Bk 08, ch. 04: Authority reasserts its Rights
71. Bk 08, ch. 05: A Suitable Tomb