Les Misérables, Volume 1

Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood (1851 - 1928)

This is book 1 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people up. Hooray. (Summary by smileyman457)

Genre(s): Literary Fiction, Romance

Language: English

Group: Les Misérables (English Version)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface Ryan T.
00:01:03
Play 01 Bk 01, ch. 01: M. Myriel Sarah Jennings
00:07:03
Play 02 Bk 01, ch. 02: M. Myriel becomes M. Welcome Kalynda
00:11:38
Play 03 Bk 01, ch. 03: A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop Heather Barnett
00:04:54
Play 04 Bk 01, ch. 04: Works corresponding to Words Melissa
00:17:46
Play 05 Bk 01, ch. 05: Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long Melissa
00:06:47
Play 06 Bk 01, ch. 06: Who guarded his House for him Melissa
00:13:04
Play 07 Bk 01, ch. 07: Cravatte Kalynda
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Play 08 Bk 01, ch. 08: Philosophy after Drinking Kalynda
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Play 09 Bk 01, ch. 09: The Brother as depicted by the Sister Kalynda
00:08:49
Play 10 Bk 01, ch. 10: The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light Peter Eastman
00:35:19
Play 11 Bk 01, ch. 11: A Restriction Melissa
00:10:51
Play 12 Bk 01, ch. 12: The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome Melissa
00:07:37
Play 13 Bk 01, ch. 13: What he believed Melissa
00:10:40
Play 14 Bk 01, ch. 14: What he thought Zachary Brewster-Geisz
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Play 15 Bk 02, ch. 01: The Evening of a Day of Walking Ancilla
00:28:01
Play 16 Bk 02, ch. 02: Prudence counselled to Wisdom Melissa
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Play 17 Bk 02, ch. 03: The Heroism of Passive Obedience Melissa
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Play 18 Bk 02, ch. 04: Details concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier Melissa
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Play 19 Bk 02, ch. 05: Tranquillity Charlene V. Smith
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Play 20 Bk 02, ch. 06: Jean Valjean Charlene V. Smith
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Play 21 Bk 02, ch. 07: The Interior of Despair David Jaquay
00:18:23
Play 22 Bk 02, ch. 08: Billows and Shadows Peter Eastman
00:07:39
Play 23 Bk 02, ch. 09: New Troubles Garrett Fitzgerald
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Play 24 Bk 02, ch. 10: The Man aroused Garrett Fitzgerald
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Play 25 Bk 02, ch. 11: What he does B. Grebe
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Play 26 Bk 02, ch. 12: The Bishop works B. Grebe
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Play 27 Bk 02, ch. 13: Little Gervais johnb
00:25:32
Play 28 Bk 03, ch. 01: The Year 1817 B. Grebe
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Play 29 Bk 03, ch. 02: A Double Quartette Lisa Chau
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Play 30 Bk 03, ch. 03: Four and Four Sean O'Hara
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Play 31 Bk 03, ch. 04: Tholomyes is so Merry that he sings a Spanish Ditty Sibella Denton
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Play 32 Bk 03, ch. 05: At Bombardas ink tree
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Play 33 Bk 03, ch. 06: A Chapter in which they adore Each Other Annise
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Play 34 Bk 03, ch. 07: The Wisdom of Tholomyes Annise
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Play 35 Bk 03, ch. 08: The Death of a Horse Varra Unreal
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Play 36 Bk 03, ch. 09: A Merry End to Mirth Jordan
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Play 37 Bk 04, ch. 01: One Mother meets Another Mother Melissa
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Play 38 Bk 04, ch. 02: First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures Melissa
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Play 39 Bk 04, ch. 03: The Lark Melissa
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Play 40 Bk 05, ch. 01: The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets Joel Poortenga
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Play 41 Bk 05, ch. 02: Madeleine Joel Poortenga
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Play 42 Bk 05, ch. 03: Sums deposited with Laffitte Joel Poortenga
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Play 43 Bk 05, ch. 04: M. Madeleine in Mourning Joel Poortenga
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Play 44 Bk 05, ch. 05: Vague Flashes on the Horizon Joel Poortenga
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Play 45 Bk 05, ch. 06: Father Fauchelevent Joel Poortenga
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Play 46 Bk 05, ch. 07: Fauchelevent becomes a Gardener in Paris Peter Eastman
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Play 47 Bk 05, ch. 08: Madame Victurnien expends Thirty Francs on Morality Zachary Brewster-Geisz
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Play 48 Bk 05, ch. 09: Madame Victurnien's Success Zachary Brewster-Geisz
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Play 49 Bk 05, ch. 10: Result of the Success Zachary Brewster-Geisz
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Play 50 Bk 05, ch. 11: Christus nos Liberavit Zachary Brewster-Geisz
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Play 51 Bk 05, ch. 12: M. Bamatabois's Inactivity Zachary Brewster-Geisz
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Play 52 Bk 05, ch. 13: The Solution of Some Questions connected with the Municipal Police Catharine Eastman
00:26:11
Play 53 Bk 06, ch. 01: The Beginning of Repose Peter Eastman
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Play 54 Bk 06, ch. 02: How Jean may become Champ Peter Eastman
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Play 55 Bk 07, ch. 01: Sister Simplice Jc Guan
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Play 56 Bk 07, ch. 02: The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire B. Grebe
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Play 57 Bk 07, ch. 03: A Tempest in a Skull Robin Cotter
00:48:49
Play 58 Bk 07, ch. 04: Forms assumed by Suffering during Sleep A.P. Goldstein
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Play 59 Bk 07, ch. 05: Hindrances Tamara Hamilton
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Play 60 Bk 07, ch. 06: Sister Simplice put to the Proof Tamara Hamilton
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Play 61 Bk 07, ch. 07: The Traveller on his Arrival takes Precautions for Departure Tamara Hamilton
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Play 62 Bk 07, ch. 08: An Entrance by Favor jpride
00:07:08
Play 63 Bk 07, ch. 09: A Place where Convictions are in Process of Formation Mat Messerschmidt
00:20:55
Play 64 Bk 07, ch. 10: The System of Denials Mat Messerschmidt
00:21:31
Play 65 Bk 07, ch. 11: Champmathieu more and more Astonished Joel Poortenga
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Play 66 Bk 08, ch. 01: In what Mirror M. Madeleine contemplates his Hair Robin Cotter
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Play 67 Bk 08, ch. 02: Fantine Happy Clarke Bell
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Play 68 Bk 08, ch. 03: Javert Satisfied Graeme Jolliffe
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Play 69 Bk 08, ch. 04: Authority reasserts its Rights Graeme Jolliffe
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Play 70 Bk 08, ch. 05: A Suitable Tomb Joel Poortenga
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