Les Misérables
An escaped convict steals two candlesticks and uses the proceeds to redeem himself and become an honest man.
License
Public Domain
Originally published
1862
Latest release
Oct 9, 2026
Pages
2242
Format
6 × 9 in (152 × 229 mm)
Book type
Novel
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Fantine
- Book I. M. Myriel
- Book II. The Fall
- I. The Year 1817
- Book IV
- Book V. The Descent
- Book VI. I. The Beginning of Repose
- Book VII. The Champmathieu Affair
- Book VIII. A Counterblow
- Cosette
- I. What Is Met with on the Way from Nivelles
- Book II. The Ship Orion
- I. The Water Question at Montfermeil
- Book IV. The Gorbeau Hovel
- I. The Zigzags of Strategy
- Book VI, I. Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus
- Book VII. The Convent as an Abstract Idea
- Book VIII. Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them
- Marius
- I. Parvulus
- I. Ninety Years and Thirty-Two Teeth
- Book III. The Grandfather and the Grandson
- Book IV. The Friends of the A.B.C.
- Book V, I. Marius Indigent
- Book VI. The Conjunction of Two Stars
- I. Mines and Miners
- Book VIII
- The Idyl in the Rue Plumet and the Epic in the Rue Saint-Denis
- Book I. A Few Pages of History
- I. The Lark’s Meadow
- I. The House with a Secret
- Book IV. A Wound Without, Healing Within
- Book V. The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning
- Book VI
- Book VII. Slang
- Book VIII
- Book IX. Whither Are They Going?
- I The Surface of the Question
- Book XI. The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane
- Book XII
- Book XIII. Marius Enters the Shadow
- Book XIV, I. The Flag: Act First
- Book XV. I. A Drinker Is a Babbler
- Jean Valjean
- I. The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla
- I. The Land Impoverished by the Sea
- Book III. The Sewer and Its Surprises
- I. Javert Derailed
- Book V. Grandson and Grandfather
- Book VI. The Sleepless Night
- I. The Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven
- Book VIII. I. The Lower Chamber
- Book IX. Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn