Les misérables

Introduction

Chronology of Victor Hugo's life and work

Historical context of Les Misérables

Fantine

Cosette

Marius

St. Denis

Jean Valjean

Notes

Interpretative notes

Critical excerpts

Questions for discussion

Suggestions for the interested reader.

Introduction / Adam Gopnik

Les Miserables

Pt. 1. Fantine

Pt. 2. Cosette

Pt. 3. Marius

Pt. 4. The Idyll of the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue Saint-Denis

Pt. 5. Jean Valjean.

9781846140495Fantine

Cosette

Marius

The idyll in the rue plumet and the epic of the rue saint-denis

Jean Valjean

Fantine. 1. An upright man -- 2. The fall -- 3. The year 1817 -- 4. To entrust is sometimes to abandon -- 5. The descent -- 6. Javert -- 7. The Champmathieu affair -- 8. Counter-stroke --

Cosette. 1. Waterloo -- 2. The ship Orion -- 3. Fulfillment of the promise to the departed -- 4. The old Gorbeau house -- 5. A dark chase needs a silent hound -- 6. Petit Picpus -- 7. A parenthesis -- 8. Cemeteries take what is given them --

Marius. 1. Paris atomised -- 2. The grand Bourgeois -- 3. The grandfather and the grandson -- 4. The friends of the A B C -- 5. The excellence of misfortune -- 6. The conjunction of two starts -- 7. Patron-minette -- 8. The noxious poor --

St. Denis. 1. A few pages of history -- 2. Eponine -- 3. The house in the Rue Plumet -- 4. Aid from below may be aid from above -- 5. The end of which is unlike the beginning -- 6. Little Gavroche -- 7. Argot -- 8. Enchantments and desolation -- 9. Where are they going -- 10. June 5th, 1832 -- 11. The atom fraternises with the hurricane -- 12. Corinth -- 13. Marius enters the shadow -- 14. The grandeurs of despair -- 15. The Rue de l'Homme Armé --

Jean Valjean. 1. War between four walls

2. The intestine of Leviathan

3. Mire, but soul

4. Javert off the track

5. The grandson and the grandfather

6. The white night

7. The last drop in the chalice

8. The twilight wane

9. Supreme shadow, supreme dawn.