Les Misérables, v. 4/5: The Idyll and the Epic
by Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo, in full Victor Marie Hugo (French pronunciation: 26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist who was the most well-known of all the French Romantic writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Legende des siecles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Miserables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831, (also known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dam...
Chapters (97)
- LES MISÉRABLES.
- VICTOR HUGO.
- PART FOURTH. THE IDYLL AND THE EPIC. AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION BY SIR LASCELLES WRAXALL
- TABLE OF CONTENTS. THE RUE PLUMET IDYLL AND THE RUE ST. DENIS EPIC.
- RUE PLUMET IDYLL AND THE RUE ST. DENIS EPIC.
- SOME PAGES OF HISTORY.
- WELL CUT OUT.
- BADLY STITCHED.
- LOUIS PHILIPPE.
- CRACKS IN THE FOUNDATION.
- FACTS FROM WHICH HISTORY IS DERIVED BUT WHICH HISTORY IGNORES.
- ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS.
- ÉPONINE.
- THE LARK'S FIELD.
- CRIMES IN EMBRYO INCUBATED IN PRISONS.
- FATHER MABŒUF HAS AN APPARITION.
- MARIUS HAS AN APPARITION.
- THE HOUSE OF THE RUE PLUMET.
- THE MYSTERIOUS HOUSE.
- JEAN VALJEAN A NATIONAL GUARD.
- FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS.
- CHANGE OF GRATING.
- THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT SHE IS AN IMPLEMENT OF WAR.
- THE BATTLE BEGINS.
- JEAN VALJEAN IS VERY SAD.
- THE CHAIN-GANG.
- SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH.
- AN EXTERNAL WOUND AND AN INTERNAL CURE.
- MOTHER PLUTARCH ACCOUNTS FOR A PHENOMENON.
- IN WHICH THE END DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING.
- SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED.
- COSETTE'S FEARS.
- ENRICHED WITH THE COMMENTS OF TOUSSAINT.
- A HEART UNDER A STONE.
- COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER.
- THE OLD PEOPLE ARE OPPORTUNELY OBLIGED TO GO OUT.
- LITTLE GAVROCHE.
- A MALICIOUS TRICK OF THE WIND.
- GAVROCHE REAPS ADVANTAGE FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT.
- INCIDENTS OF AN ESCAPE.
- SLANG.
- THE ORIGIN OF SLANG.
- ROOTS.
- SLANG THAT CRIES AND SLANG THAT LAUGHS.
- TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE.
- ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS.
- BRIGHT LIGHT.
- THE GIDDINESS OF PERFECT BLISS.
- THE BEGINNING OF THE SHADOW.
- CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG.
- THINGS OF THE NIGHT.
- MARIUS ACTUALLY GIVES COSETTE HIS ADDRESS.
- AN OLD HEART AND A YOUNG HEART FACE TO FACE.
- WHERE ARE THEY GOING?
- JEAN VALJEAN.
- MARIUS.
- M. MABŒUF.
- THE FIFTH OF JUNE, 1832.
- THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION.
- THE BOTTOM OF THE QUESTION.
- A BURIAL GIVES OPPORTUNITY FOR A REVIVAL.
- THE EBULLITIONS OF OTHER DAYS.
- ORIGINALITY OF PARIS.
- THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH HURRICANE.
- THE ORIGIN OF THE POETRY OF GAVROCHE AND THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN UPON IT.
- GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH.
- JUST INDIGNATION OF A BARBER.
- THE CHILD ASTONISHES THE OLD MAN.
- THE OLD MAN.
- RECRUITS.
- CORINTH.
- HISTORY OF CORINTH FROM ITS FOUNDATION.
- PRELIMINARY GAYETIES.
- THE NIGHT BEGINS TO FALL ON GRANTAIRE.
- AN ENDEAVOR TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP.
- PREPARATIONS.
- WAITING.
- THE RECRUIT OF THE RUE DES BILLETTES.
- WAS HIS NAME LE CABUC?
- MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW.
- FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER ST. DENIS.
- AN OWL'S-EYE VIEW OF PARIS.
- THE EXTREME BRINK.
- THE GRANDEUR OF DESPAIR.
- THE FLAG: ACT FIRST.
- THE FLAG: ACT SECOND.
- GAVROCHE HAD BETTER HAVE ACCEPTED THE CARBINE OF ENJOLRAS.
- THE BARREL OF GUNPOWDER.
- END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE.
- DEATH'S AGONY AFTER LIFE'S AGONY.
- GAVROCHE CALCULATES DISTANCES.
- THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ
- BLOTTING, BLABBING.
- THE GAMIN THE ENEMY OF LAMPS.
- WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT SLEEP.
- GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL.
- END OF PART FOURTH.
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