Les Misérables, v. 2/5: Cosette
by Victor Hugo
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"I will weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep with me over the children of the people" ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo recounts the story of Jean Valjean who was convicted for stealing a loaf of bread to feed the starving children of his sister. Snubbed by society for being a former convict, he struggles to live virtuously. But an unexpected act of mercy and compassion by Bishop Myriel changes his life, encouraging him to become a new man. Valjean's righteous actions change people's lives in surprising ways. He eventually becom...
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- LES MISÉRABLES.
- VICTOR HUGO.
- PART SECOND. COSETTE. AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION BY SIR LASCELLES WRAXALL.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS. COSETTE.
- WATERLOO.
- ON THE NIVELLES ROAD.
- HOUGOMONT.
- JUNE 18, 1815.
- A.
- THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES.
- FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON.
- NAPOLEON IN GOOD HUMOR.
- THE EMPEROR ASKS THE GUIDE A QUESTION.
- A SURPRISE.
- THE PLATEAU OF MONT ST. JEAN.
- BÜLOW TO THE RESCUE.
- THE GUARD.
- THE CATASTROPHE.
- THE LAST SQUARE.
- CAMBRONNE.
- QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE.
- OUGHT WATERLOO TO BE APPLAUDED?
- RESTORATION OF DIVINE RIGHT.
- THE BATTLE-FIELD BY NIGHT.
- THE SHIP ORION.
- NO. 24,601 BECOMES NO. 9430.
- TWO LINES OF A DOUBTFUL ORIGIN.
- ON BOARD THE "ORION."
- THE PROMISE TO THE DEAD FULFILLED.
- THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL.
- TWO FULL-LENGTH PORTRAITS.
- MEN WANT WINE AND HORSES WATER.
- A DOLL COMES ON THE STAGE.
- THE LITTLE ONE ALONE.
- BOULATRUELLE MAY HAVE BEEN RIGHT.
- COSETTE IN THE DARK WITH THE STRANGER.
- IS HE RICH OR POOR?
- THÉNARDIER AT WORK.
- THÉNARDIER HAS ONE REGRET.
- NO. 9430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY.
- THE GORBEAU TENEMENT.
- MASTER GORBEAU.
- THE NEST OF AN OWL AND A LINNET.
- TWO EVILS MAKE A GOOD.
- THE REMARKS OF THE CHIEF LODGER.
- NOISE MADE BY A FALLING FIVE-FRANC PIECE.
- FOR A STILL HUNT A DUMB PACK.
- STRATEGIC ZIGZAGS.
- IT IS FORTUNATE THAT THE BRIDGE OF AUSTERLITZ WILL CARRY WAGONS.
- CONSULT THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727.
- ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE.
- A THING IMPOSSIBLE IN GASLIGHT.
- THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA.
- CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA.
- THE ENIGMA INCREASES.
- THE MAN WITH THE BELL.
- HOW JAVERT ONLY FOUND THE NEST.
- PETIT PICPUS.
- NO. 62, RUE PICPUS.
- THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA.
- SEVERITIES.
- GAYETIES.
- AMUSEMENTS.
- THE LITTLE CONVENT.
- A FEW PROFILES FROM THE SHADOW.
- POST CORDA LAPIDES.
- A CENTURY UNDER A WIMPLE.
- ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION.
- THE END OF LITTLE PICPUS.
- A PARENTHESIS.
- THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA.
- THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT.
- ON WHAT TERMS THE PAST IS VENERABLE.
- THE CONVENT FROM MORAL STANDPOINT.
- PRAYER.
- ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRATER.
- CARE TO BE EXERCISED IN CONDEMNING.
- FAITH, LAW.
- CEMETERIES TAKE WHAT IS GIVEN THEM.
- HOW TO GET INTO A CONVENT.
- MOTHER INNOCENT.
- A PLAN OF ESCAPE.
- A DRUNKARD IS NOT IMMORTAL.
- BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS.
- FAUCHELEVENT HAS AN IDEA.
- A SUCCESSFUL EXAMINATION.
- IN THE CONVENT.
- END OF PART SECOND.
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