Misérables, Volume 2

Author(s)

Victor Hugo

This is book 2 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)

Bk 01 Ch 01: What Is Met with on the Way to Nivelles
Bk 01 Ch 02: Hougomont
Bk 01 Ch 03: The 18th of June, 1815
Bk 01 Ch 04: A
Bk 01 Ch 05: The Quid Obscurum of Battles
Bk 01 Ch 06: Four o'Clock in the Afternoon
Bk 01 Ch 07: Napoleon in a Good Humour
Bk 01 Ch 08: The Emperor Puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste
Bk 01 Ch 09: The Unexpected
Bk 01 Ch 10: The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean
Bk 01 Ch 11: A Bad Guide to Napoleon: A Good Guide to Bulow
Bk 01 Ch 12: The Guard
Bk 01 Ch 13: The Catastrophe
Bk 01 Ch 14: The Last Square
Bk 01 Ch 15: Cambronne
Bk 01 Ch 16: Quot Libras in Duce
Bk 01 Ch 17: Is Waterloo to Be Considered Good
Bk 01 Ch 18: A Recrudescence of Divine Right
Bk 01 Ch 19: The Battle-Field at Night
Bk 02 Ch 01: Number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430
Bk 02 Ch 02: In Which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses...
Bk 02 Ch 03: The Ankle-Chain...
Bk 03 Ch 01: The Water Question at Montfermeil
Bk 03 Ch 02: Two Complete Portraits
Bk 03 Ch 03: Men Must Have Wine...
Bk 03 Ch 04: Entrance on the Scene of a Doll
Bk 03 Ch 05: The Little One All Alone
Bk 03 Ch 06: Which Probably Proves Boulatruelle's Intelligence
Bk 03 Ch 07: Cosette Side By Side with the Stranger in the Dark
Bk 03 Ch 08: The Unpleasantness of Receiving Into One's House....
Bk 03 Ch 09: Thenardier and His Manoeuvres
Bk 03 Ch 10: He Who Seeks to Better Himself...
Bk 03 Ch 11: Number 9,340 Reappears...
Bk 04 Ch 01: Master Gorbeau
Bk 04 Ch 02: A Nest for Owl and a Warbler
Bk 04 Ch 03: Two Misfortunes Make One Piece of Good Fortune
Bk 04 Ch 04: The Remarks of the Principal Tenant
Bk 04 Ch 05: A Five-Franc Piece Falls on the Ground...
Bk 05 Ch 01: The Zigzags of Strategy
Bk 05 Ch 02: It Is Lucky that the Pont D'Austerlitz Bears Carriages
Bk 05 Ch 03: To Wit, the Plan of Paris 1727
Bk 05 Ch 04: The Gropings of Flight
Bk 05 Ch 05: Which Would Be Impossible with Gas Lanterns
Bk 05 Ch 06: The Beginning of an Enigma
Bk 05 Ch 07: Continuation of the Enigma
Bk 05 Ch 08: The Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious
Bk 05 Ch 09: The Man with the Bell
Bk 05 Ch 10: Which Explains How Javert Got on the Scent
Bk 06 Ch 01: Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus
Bk 06 Ch 02: The Obedience of Martin Verga
Bk 06 Ch 03: Austerities
Bk 06 Ch 04: Gayeties
Bk 06 Ch 05: Distractions
Bk 06 Ch 06: The Little Convent
Bk 06 Ch 07: Some Silhouettes of this Darkness
Bk 06 Ch 08: Post Corda Lapides
Bk 06 Ch 09: A Century Under a Guimpe
Bk 06 Ch 10: Origin of the Perpetual Adoration
Bk 06 Ch 11: End of the Petit-Picpus
Bk 07 Ch 01: The Convent as an Abstract Idea
Bk 07 Ch 02: The Convent As an Historical Fact
Bk 07 Ch 03: On What Conditions One Can Respect the Past
Bk 07 Ch 04: The Convent from the Point of View of Principles
Bk 07 Ch 05: Prayer
Bk 07 Ch 06: The Absolute Goodness of Prayer
Bk 07 Ch 07: Precautions to Be Observed in Blame
Bk 07 Ch 08: Faith, Law
Bk 08 Ch 01: Which Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent
Bk 08 Ch 02: Fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty
Bk 08 Ch 03: Mother Innocente
Bk 08 Ch 04: In Which Jean Valjean Has Quite the Air...
Bk 08 Ch 05: It Is Not Necessary to Be Drunk...
Bk 08 Ch 06: Between Four Planks
Bk 08 Ch 07: In Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying...
Bk 08 Ch 08: A Successful Interrogatory
Bk 08 Ch 09: Cloistered