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