/lit/'s Top 100 Books of All Time
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
1 min to start
37 hrs to read
Volume V
Jean Valjean
Book I - The War Between Four Walls
I - The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla
11 mins
II - What Is to Be Done in the Abyss if One Does Not Converse
5 mins
III - Light and Shadow
2 mins
IV - Minus Five, Plus One
9 mins
V - The Horizon Which One Beholds from the Summit of a Barricade
6 mins
VI - Marius Haggard, Javert Laconic
2 mins
VII - The Situation Becomes Aggravated
6 mins
VIII - The Artillerymen Compel People to Take Them Seriously
4 mins
IX - Employment of the Old Talents of a Poacher and That Infallible Marksmanship Which Influenced the Condemnation of 1796
2 mins
X - Dawn
5 mins
XI - The Shot Which Misses Nothing and Kills No One
1 min
XII - Disorder a Partisan of Order
4 mins
XIII - Passing Gleams
2 mins
XIV - Wherein Will Appear the Name of Enjolras’ Mistress
2 mins
XV - Gavroche Outside
3 mins
XVI - How from a Brother One Becomes a Father
12 mins
XVII - Mortuus Pater Filium Moriturum Expectat
2 mins
XVIII - The Vulture Become Prey
5 mins
XIX - Jean Valjean Takes His Revenge
3 mins
XX - The Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the Wrong
13 mins
XXI - The Heroes
6 mins
XXII - Foot to Foot
5 mins
XXIII - Orestes Fasting and Pylades Drunk
4 mins
XXIV - Prisoner
4 mins
Book II - The Intestine of the Leviathan
I - The Land Impoverished by the Sea
5 mins
II - Ancient History of the Sewer
5 mins
III - Bruneseau
4 mins
IV
5 mins
V - Present Progress
1 min
VI - Future Progress
7 mins
Book III - Mud but the Soul
I - The Sewer and Its Surprises
10 mins
II - Explanation
3 mins
III - The “Spun” Man
6 mins
IV - He Also Bears His Cross
5 mins
V - In the Case of Sand as in That of Woman, There Is a Fineness Which Is Treacherous
7 mins
VI - The Fontis
3 mins
VII - One Sometimes Runs Aground When One Fancies That One Is Disembarking
3 mins
VIII - The Torn Coattail
7 mins
IX - Marius Produces on Some One Who Is a Judge of the Matter, the Effect of Being Dead
6 mins
X - Return of the Son Who Was Prodigal of His Life
2 mins
XI - Concussion in the Absolute
2 mins
XII - The Grandfather
9 mins
Book IV - Javert Derailed
I
17 mins
Book V - Grandson and Grandfather
I - In Which the Tree with the Zinc Plaster Appears Again
5 mins
II - Marius, Emerging from Civil War, Makes Ready for Domestic War
7 mins
III - Marius Attacked
4 mins
IV - Mademoiselle Gillenormand Ends by No Longer Thinking It a Bad Thing That M. Fauchelevent Should Have Entered with Something Under His Arm
7 mins
V - Deposit Your Money in a Forest Rather Than with a Notary
1 min
VI - The Two Old Men Do Everything, Each One After His Own Fashion, to Render Cosette Happy
12 mins
VII - The Effects of Dreams Mingled with Happiness
3 mins
VIII - Two Men Impossible to Find
6 mins
Book VI - The Sleepless Night
I - The 16th of February, 1833
12 mins
II - Jean Valjean Still Wears His Arm in a Sling
14 mins
III - The Inseparable
3 mins
IV - The Immortal Liver
6 mins
Book VII - The Last Draught from the Cup
I - The Seventh Circle and the Eighth Heaven
27 mins
II - The Obscurities Which a Revelation Can Contain
12 mins
Book VIII - Fading Away of the Twilight
I - The Lower Chamber
6 mins
II - Another Step Backwards
3 mins
III - They Recall the Garden of the Rue Plumet
6 mins
IV - Attraction and Extinction
2 mins
I - Pity for the Unhappy, but Indulgence for the Happy
3 mins
II - Last Flickerings of a Lamp Without Oil
2 mins
III - A Pen Is Heavy to the Man Who Lifted the Fauchelevent’s Cart
4 mins
IV - A Bottle of Ink Which Only Succeeded in Whitening
27 mins
V - A Night Behind Which There Is Day
15 mins
VI - The Grass Covers and the Rain Effaces
1 min
Book IX - Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn
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The War Between Four Walls
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