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Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed. From the Paperback edition.

Born in 1802, the son of a high officer in Napoleon’s army, Victor Hugo spent his childhood against a background of military life in Elba, Corsica, Naples, and Madrid. After the Napoleonic defeat, the Hugo family settled in straitened circumstances in Paris, where, at the age of fifteen, Victor Hugo commenced his literary career with a poem submitted to a contest sponsored by the Académie Française. Twenty-four years later, Hugo was elected to the Académie, having helped revolutionize French literature with his poems, plays, and novels. Entering politics, he won a seat in the National Assembly in 1848; but in 1851, he was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Louis Napoleon. In exile on the Isle of Guernsey, he became a symbol of French resistance to tyranny; upon his return to Paris after the Revolution of 1870, he was greeted as a national hero. He continued to serve in public life and to write with unabated vigor until his death in 1885. He was buried in the Pantheon with every honor the French nation could bestow.

Introduction	p. 7
Fantine
An Upright Man	p. 19
The Outcast	p. 71
In the Year 1817	p. 119
To Trust is Sometimes to Surrender	p. 144
Degradation	p. 155
Javert	p. 191
The Champmathieu Affair	p. 202
Counter-Stroke	p. 260
Cosette
Waterloo	p. 279
The Ship Orion	p. 325
Fulfilment of a Promise	p. 338
The Gorbeau Tenement	p. 385
Hunt in Darkness	p. 399
Le Petit-Picpus	p. 425
Cemeteries Take What They are Given	p. 451
Marius
Paris in Microcosm	p. 495
A Grand Bourgeois	p. 512
Grandfather and Grandson	p. 522
The ABC Society	p. 555
The Virtues of Misfortune	p. 584
Conjunction of Two Stars	p. 603
Patron-Minette	p. 619
The Noxious Poor	p. 627
The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue Saint-Denis
A Few Pages of History	p. 705
Eponine	p. 739
The House in the Rue Plumet	p. 756
Help from Below May be Help from above	p. 788
Of Which the End Does Not Resemble the Beginning	p. 797
The Boy Gavroche	p. 812
Enchantment and Despair	p. 844
Where are They Going?	p. 876
5 June 1832	p. 883
The Straw in the Wind	p. 904
Corinth	p. 915
Marius Enters the Darkness	p. 943
The Greatness of Despair	p. 953
In the Rue de L'Homme-Arme	p. 970
Jean Valjean
War within Four Walls	p. 987
The Entrails of the Monster	p. 1061
Mire, But the Soul	p. 1076
Javert in Disarray	p. 1104
Grandson and Grandfather	p. 1110
The Sleepless Night	p. 1129
The Bitter Cup	p. 1145
The Fading Light	p. 1162
Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn	p. 1173
The Convent as an Abstract Idea (Part Two, Book VII)	p. 1202
Argot (Part Four, Book VII)	p. 1214
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Les Miserables

Les Miserables

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