Volume I
Fantine

Preface
1 Book First-A Just Man
 I M. Myriel
 II M. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome
 III A Hard Bishopric For A Good Bishop
 IV Works Corresponding To Words
 V Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long
 VI Who Guarded His House For Him
 VII Cravatte
 VIII Philosophy After Drinking
 IX The Brother As Depicted By The Sister
 X The Bishop In The Presence Of An Unknown Light
 XI A Restriction
 XII The Solitude Of Monseigneur Welcome
 XIII What He Believed
 XIV What He Thought
2 Book Second-The Fall
 I The Evening Of A Day Of Walking
 II Prudence Counselled To Wisdom.
 III The Heroism Of Passive Obedience.
 IV Details Concerning The Cheese-Dairies Of Pontarlier.
 V Tranquillity
 VI Jean Valjean
 VII The Interior Of Despair
 VIII Billows And Shadows
 IX New Troubles
 X The Man Aroused
 XI What He Does
 XII The Bishop Works
 XIII Little Gervais
3 Book Third.-In The Year 1817
 I The Year 1817
 II A Double Quartette
 III Four And Four
 IV Tholomyes Is So Merry That He Sings A Spanish Ditty
 V At Bombarda’s
 VI A Chapter In Which They Adore Each Other
 VII The Wisdom Of Tholomyes
 VIII The Death Of A Horse
 IX A Merry End To Mirth
4 Book Fourth.-Confide Sometimes Deliver Into Person’s Power
 I One Mother Meets Another Mother
 II First Sketch Of Two Unprepossessing Figures
 III The Lark
5 Book Fifth.-The Descent.
 I The History Of A Progress In Black Glass Trinkets
 II Madeleine
 III Sums Deposited With Laffitte
 IV M. Madeleine In Mourning
 V Vague Flashes On The Horizon
 VI Father Fauchelevent
 VII Fauchelevent Becomes A Gardener In Paris
 VIII Madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs On Morality
 IX Madame Victurnien’s Success
 X Result Of The Success
 XI Christus Nos Liberavit
 XII M. Bamatabois’s Inactivity
 XIII The Solution Of Questions Connected With Municipal Police
6 Book Sixth.-Javert
 I The Beginning Of Repose
 II How Jean May Become Champ
7 Book Seventh.-The Champmathieu Affair
 I Sister Simplice
 II The Perspicacity Of Master Scaufflaire
 III A Tempest In A Skull
 IV Forms Assumed By Suffering During Sleep
 V Hindrances
 VI Sister Simplice Put To The Proof
 VII The Traveller On His Arrival Takes Precautions For Departure
 VIII An Entrance By Favour
 IX A Place Where Convictions Are In Process Of Formation
 X The System Of Denials
 XI Champmathieu More And More Astonished
8 Book Eighth.-A Counter-Blow
 I In What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair
 II Fantine Happy
 III Javert Satisfied
 IV Authority Reasserts Its Rights
 V A Suitable Tomb