Les Misérables, v. 4/5: The Idyll and the Epic

Hugo

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Hugo · 85 chapters

Quotes from this book

• Everybody insists on a bed.

• facts are the quarter-masters that only prepare a billet for principles.

Chapters

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• WELL CUT OUT.Sample
• BADLY STITCHED.
• LOUIS PHILIPPE.
• CRACKS IN THE FOUNDATION.
• FACTS FROM WHICH HISTORY IS DERIVED BUT WHICH HISTORY IGNORES.
• ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS.
• THE LARK'S FIELD.
• CRIMES IN EMBRYO INCUBATED IN PRISONS.
• FATHER MABŒUF HAS AN APPARITION.
• MARIUS HAS AN APPARITION.
• 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.
• AN EXTERNAL WOUND AND AN INTERNAL CURE.
• MOTHER PLUTARCH ACCOUNTS FOR A PHENOMENON.
• 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.
• A MALICIOUS TRICK OF THE WIND.
• GAVROCHE REAPS ADVANTAGE FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT.
• INCIDENTS OF AN ESCAPE.
• THE ORIGIN OF SLANG.
• ROOTS.
• SLANG THAT CRIES AND SLANG THAT LAUGHS.
• TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE.
• 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.
• JEAN VALJEAN.
• MARIUS.
• M. MABŒUF.
• 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 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.
• 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?
• FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER ST. DENIS.
• AN OWL'S-EYE VIEW OF PARIS.
• THE EXTREME BRINK.
• 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.
• BLOTTING, BLABBING.
• THE GAMIN THE ENEMY OF LAMPS.
• WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT SLEEP.
• GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL.