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Title: Les Misérables, v. 4-5
       Fantine - Cosette - Marius - The Idyll and the Epic - Jean Valjean

Author: Victor Hugo

Translator: Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall

Release Date: April 18, 2015 [EBook #48734]

Language: English


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LES MISÉRABLES.

BY

VICTOR HUGO.

PART FOURTH.

THE IDYLL AND THE EPIC.

AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION BY SIR LASCELLES WRAXALL

BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
1887.

"ONE MORNING WHEN THE SUN WAS SHINING, AND BOTH WERE ON THE GARDEN STEPS"


TABLE OF CONTENTS.

THE RUE PLUMET IDYLL AND THE RUE ST. DENIS EPIC.

BOOK I.
SOME PAGES OF HISTORY.
 
I.WELL CUT OUT
II.BADLY STITCHED
III.LOUIS PHILIPPE
IV.CRACKS IN THE FOUNDATION
V.FACTS FROM WHICH HISTORY IS DERIVED BUT WHICH HISTORY IGNORES
VI.ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS
 
BOOK II.
ÉPONINE.
 
I.THE LARK'S FIELD
II.CRIMES IN EMBRYO INCUBATED IN PRISONS
III.FATHER MABŒUF HAS AN APPARITION
IV.MARIUS HAS AN APPARITION
 
BOOK III.
THE HOUSE OF THE RUE PLUMET.
 
I.THE MYSTERIOUS HOUSE
II.JEAN VALJEAN A NATIONAL GUARD
III.FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
IV.CHANGE OF GRATING
V.THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT SHE IS AN IMPLEMENT OF WAR
VI.THE BATTLE BEGINS
VII.JEAN VALJEAN IS VERY SAD
VIII.THE CHAIN-GANG
 
BOOK IV.
SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH.
 
I.AN EXTERNAL WOUND AND AN INTERNAL CURE
II.MOTHER PLUTARCH ACCOUNTS FOR A PHENOMENON
 
BOOK V.
IN WHICH THE END DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING.
 
I.SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED
II.COSETTE'S FEARS
III.ENRICHED WITH THE COMMENTS OF TOUSSAINT
IV.A HEART UNDER A STONE
V.COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER
VI.THE OLD PEOPLE ARE OPPORTUNELY OBLIGED TO GO OUT
 
BOOK VI.
LITTLE GAVROCHE.
 
I.A MALICIOUS TRICK OF THE WIND
II.GAVROCHE REAPS ADVANTAGE FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT
III.INCIDENTS OF AN ESCAPE
 
BOOK VII.
SLANG.
 
I.THE ORIGIN OF SLANG
II.ROOTS
III.SLANG THAT CRIES AND SLANG THAT LAUGHS
IV.TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
 
BOOK VIII.
ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS.
 
I.BRIGHT LIGHT
II.THE GIDDINESS OF PERFECT BLISS
III.THE BEGINNING OF THE SHADOW
IV.CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG
V.THINGS OF THE NIGHT
VI.MARIUS ACTUALLY GIVES COSETTE HIS ADDRESS
VII.AN OLD HEART AND A YOUNG HEART FACE TO FACE
 
BOOK IX.
WHERE ARE THEY GOING?
 
I.JEAN VALJEAN
II.MARIUS
III.M. MABŒUF
 
BOOK X.
THE FIFTH OF JUNE, 1832.
 
I.THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION
II.THE BOTTOM OF THE QUESTION
III.A BURIAL GIVES OPPORTUNITY FOR A REVIVAL
IV.THE EBULLITIONS OF OTHER DAYS
V.ORIGINALITY OF PARIS
 
BOOK XI.
THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE.
 
I.THE ORIGIN OF THE POETRY OF GAVROCHE AND THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN UPON IT
II.GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
III.JUST INDIGNATION OF A BARBER
IV.THE CHILD ASTONISHES THE OLD MAN
V.THE OLD MAN
VI.RECRUITS
 
BOOK XII.
CORINTH.
 
I.HISTORY OF CORINTH FROM ITS FOUNDATION
II.PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
III.THE NIGHT BEGINS TO FALL ON GRANTAIRE
IV.AN ENDEAVOR TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP
V.PREPARATIONS
VI.WAITING
VII.THE RECRUIT OF THE RUE DES BILLETTES
VIII.WAS HIS NAME LE CABUC?
 
BOOK XIII.
MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW.
 
I.FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER ST. DENIS
II.AN OWL'S-EYE VIEW OF PARIS
III.THE EXTREME BRINK
 
BOOK XIV.
THE GRANDEUR OF DESPAIR.
 
I.THE FLAG: ACT FIRST
II.THE FLAG: ACT SECOND
III.GAVROCHE HAD BETTER HAVE ACCEPTED THE CARBINE OF ENJOLRAS
IV.THE BARREL OF GUNPOWDER
V.END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE
VI.DEATH'S AGONY AFTER LIFE'S AGONY
VII.GAVROCHE CALCULATES DISTANCES
 
BOOK XV.
THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ.
 
I.BLOTTING, BLABBING
II.THE GAMIN THE ENEMY OF LAMPS
III.WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT SLEEP
IV.GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL

Illustrations.

"ONE MORNING WHEN THE SUN WAS SHINING, AND BOTH
WERE ON THE GARDEN STEPS"
Vol. IV. Frontispiece
Drawn by G. Jeanniot.

RECRUITS
Drawn by G. Jeanniot.


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