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Les MisérablesVictor Hugo
Victor Hugo's glorious, 1,400-page journey through post-revolutionary France has 365 chapters. You might consider this a good reason to read it over a year. This might help.
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Table of contents
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This is the table of contents from Christine Donougher's 2015 Penguin translation
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Volume I: Fantine
Book I: A Good Man
I: Monsieur Myriel
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II: Monsieur Myriel becomes Monsieur Bienvenu
202/01/2023
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III: For a good Bishop, a hard bishopric
303/01/2023
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IV: Deeds to match words
404/01/2023
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V: Monseigneur Bienvenu made his cassocks last far too long
505/01/2023
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VI: Under whose protection he placed his house
606/01/2023
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VII: Cravatte707/01/2023
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VIII: After-drinking philosophy
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IX: The brother as described by his sister
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X: The Bishop in the presence of an unknown light
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XI: One reservation
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XII: Monseigneur Bienvenu's isolation
1212/01/2023
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XIII: What he believed
1313/01/2023
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XIV: What he thought
1414/01/2023
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Book II: The Fall
I: The evening after a day's walking
1515/01/2023
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II: Wisdom is advised to be prudent
1616/01/2023
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III: The heroism of passive obedience
1717/01/2023
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IV: About the cheese dairies of pontarlier
1818/01/2023
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V: Tranquillity1919/01/2023
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VI: Jean Valjean2020/01/2023
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VII: Inside despair
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VIII: The deep and the dark
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IX: New woes2323/01/2023
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X: The man awakened
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XI: What he does2525/01/2023
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XII: The Bishop at work
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XIII: Petit-Gervais2727/01/2023
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Book III: In the year 1817
I: The year 18172828/01/2023
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II: Two foursomes
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III: Haphazard pairings
3030/01/2023
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IV: Tholomyès is so happy, he sings a Spanish song
3131/01/2023
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V: At Bombarda’s3201/02/2023
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VI: Chapter in which lovers adore
3302/02/2023
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VII: Tholomyès's wisdom
3403/02/2023
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VIII: Death of a horse
3504/02/2023
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IX: A merry end to mirth
3605/02/2023
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Book IV: Entrusting sometimes means giving away
I: One mother meets another
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II: First sketch of two shady characters
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III: The Lark3908/02/2023
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Book V: The descent
I: Story of an advance in the manufacture of black glass jewellery
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II: Madeleine4110/02/2023
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III: Sums deposited with Laffitte
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IV: Monsieur Madeleine in mourning
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V: Vague glimmerings on the horizon
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VI: Père Fauchelevent
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VII: Fauchelevent becomes a gardener in Paris
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VIII: Madame Victurnien spends thirty-five francs for the sake of morality
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IX: Success for Madame Victurnien
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X: The consequences of her success
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XI: Christus nos liberavit
5019/02/2023
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XII: Monsieur Bamatabois’s idleness
5120/02/2023
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XIII: Resolving some questions of municipal policing
5221/02/2023
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Book VI: JavertI: An initial rest5322/02/2023
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II: How Jean may become champ
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Book VII: The Champmathieu affair
I: Soeur Simplice5524/02/2023
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II: Maître Scaufflaire’s Shrewdness
5625/02/2023
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III: A storm in the mind
5726/02/2023
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IV: Forms that suffering takes in sleep
5827/02/2023
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V: Spokes in the wheels
5928/02/2023
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VI: Soeur Simplice put to the test
6001/03/2023
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VII: The traveller on arrival makes sure of being able to leave
6102/03/2023
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VIII: Privileged access
6203/03/2023
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IX: Where convictions take place
6304/03/2023
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X: Systematic denials
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XI: Champmathieu is ever more amazed
6506/03/2023
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Book VIII: After-effect
I: The mirror in which Monsieur Madeleine sees his hair
6607/03/2023
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II: Fantine happy6708/03/2023
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III: Javert satisfied
6809/03/2023
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IV: Authority reasserts its rights
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V: A suitable grave
7011/03/2023
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Volume II: Cosette
Book I: Waterloo
I: On the way from Nivelles
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II: Hougomont7213/03/2023
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III: The eighteenth of June, 1815
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IV: A7415/03/2023
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V: The quid obscurum of battles
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VI: Four O’Clock in the afternoon
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VII: Napoleon in good humour
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VIII: The Emperor asks his guide Lacoste a question
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IX: The unexpected
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X: The Mont-Saint-Jean Plateau
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XI: A bad guide for Napoleon, a good guide for Bülow
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XII: The guard8223/03/2023
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XIII: The catastrophe
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XIV: The last square
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XV: Cambronne8526/03/2023
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XVI: Quot libras in Duce?
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XVII: Should Waterloo to be regarded as a good thing?
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XVIII: Another outbreak of divine right
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XIX: The battlefield at night
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Book II: The ship Orion
I: Number 24601 becomes number 9430
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II: In which are to be read two lines of verse perhaps by the devil
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The ankle-chain must have been worked on previously, to break at a single hammer blow
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Book III: A deathbed promise if honoured
I: The problem of water at Montfermeil
9303/04/2023
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II: Two finished portraits
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