/lit/'s Top 100 Books of All Time
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
1 min to start
37 hrs to read
Volume IV
Book I - A Few Pages of History
I - Well Cut
8 mins
II - Badly Sewed
4 mins
III - Louis Philippe
10 mins
IV - Cracks Beneath the Foundation
10 mins
V - Facts Whence History Springs and Which History Ignores
15 mins
VI - Enjolras and His Lieutenants
5 mins
Book II - Éponine
I - The Lark’s Meadow
8 mins
II - Embryonic Formation of Crimes in the Incubation of Prisons
6 mins
III - Apparition to Father Mabeuf
5 mins
IV - An Apparition to Marius
6 mins
Book III - The House in the Rue Plumet
I - The House with a Secret
7 mins
II - Jean Valjean as a National Guard
3 mins
III - Foliis Ac Frondibus
5 mins
IV - Change of Gate
7 mins
V - The Rose Perceives That It Is an Engine of War
6 mins
VI - The Battle Begun
5 mins
VII - To One Sadness Oppose a Sadness and a Half
8 mins
VIII - The Chain-Gang
15 mins
Book IV - Succor from Below May Turn Out to Be Succor from on High
I - A Wound Without, Healing Within
3 mins
II - Mother Plutarque Finds No Difficulty in Explaining a Phenomenon
12 mins
Book V - The End of Which Does Not Resemble the Beginning
I - Solitude and the Barracks Combined
2 mins
II - Cosette’s Apprehensions
5 mins
III - Enriched with Commentaries by Toussaint
4 mins
IV - A Heart Beneath a Stone
5 mins
V - Cosette After the Letter
3 mins
VI - Old People Are Made to Go Out Opportunely
5 mins
Book VI - Little Gavroche
I - The Malicious Playfulness of the Wind
5 mins
II - In Which Little Gavroche Extracts Profit from Napoleon the Great
31 mins
III - The Vicissitudes of Flight
19 mins
Book VII - Slang
I - Origin
11 mins
II - Roots
13 mins
III - Slang Which Weeps and Slang Which Laughs
6 mins
IV - The Two Duties: To Watch and to Hope
6 mins
Book VIII - Enchantments and Desolations
I - Full Light
8 mins
II - The Bewilderment of Perfect Happiness
3 mins
III - The Beginning of Shadow
4 mins
IV - A Cab Runs in English and Barks in Slang
9 mins
V - Things of the Night
1 min
VI - Marius Becomes Practical Once More to the Extent of Giving Cosette His Address
8 mins
VII - The Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence of Each Other
18 mins
Book IX - Whither Are They Going?
I - Jean Valjean
2 mins
II - Marius
3 mins
III - M. Mabeuf
5 mins
Book X - The 5th of June, 1832
I - The Surface of the Question
5 mins
II - The Root of the Matter
9 mins
III - A Burial; An Occasion to Be Born Again
8 mins
IV - The Ebullitions of Former Days
7 mins
V - Originality of Paris
4 mins
Book XI - The Atom Fraternizes with the Hurricane
I - Some Explanations with Regard to the Origin of Gavroche’s Poetry
3 mins
II - Gavroche on the March
4 mins
III - Just Indignation of a Hairdresser
2 mins
IV - The Child Is Amazed at the Old Man
2 mins
V - The Old Man
1 min
VI - Recruits
1 min
Book XII - Corinthe
I - History of Corinthe from Its Foundation
7 mins
II - Preliminary Gayeties
14 mins
III - Night Begins to Descend Upon Grantaire
4 mins
IV - An Attempt to Console the Widow Hucheloup
5 mins
V - Preparations
2 mins
VI - Waiting
1 min
VII - The Man Recruited in the Rue des Billettes
4 mins
VIII - Many Interrogation Points with Regard to a Certain le Cabuc
6 mins
Book XIII - Marius Enters the Shadow
I - From the Rue Plumet to the Quartier Saint-Denis
4 mins
II - An Owl’s View of Paris
4 mins
III - The Extreme Edge
9 mins
Book XIV - The Grandeurs of Despair
I - The Flag: Act First
3 mins
II - The Flag: Act Second
3 mins
III - Gavroche Would Have Done Better to Accept Enjolras’ Carbine
1 min
IV - The Barrel of Powder
3 mins
V - End of the Verses of Jean Prouvaire
2 mins
VI - The Agony of Death After the Agony of Life
5 mins
VII - Gavroche as a Profound Calculator of Distances
4 mins
Book XV - The Rue de l’Homme Armé
I - A Drinker Is a Babbler
13 mins
II - The Street Urchin an Enemy of Light
5 mins
III - While Cosette and Toussaint Are Asleep
2 mins
IV - Gavroche’s Excess of Zeal
5 mins
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Book I
A Few Pages of History
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