Misérables, Volume 1

Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood (1851–1928)

Read by Ryan T., Sarah Jennings, Kalynda and 27 others

13h 45m · 71 chapters

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)

Chapters

1. 1Bk 01, ch. 01: M. Myriel7 min
2. 2Bk 01, ch. 02: M. Myriel becomes M. Welcome11 min
3. 3Bk 01, ch. 03: A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop4 min
4. 4Bk 01, ch. 04: Works corresponding to Words17 min
5. 5Bk 01, ch. 05: Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long6 min
6. 6Bk 01, ch. 06: Who guarded his House for him13 min
7. 7Bk 01, ch. 07: Cravatte8 min
8. 8Bk 01, ch. 08: Philosophy after Drinking8 min
9. 9Bk 01, ch. 09: The Brother as depicted by the Sister8 min
10. 10Bk 01, ch. 10: The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light35 min
11. 11Bk 01, ch. 11: A Restriction10 min
12. 12Bk 01, ch. 12: The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome7 min
13. 13Bk 01, ch. 13: What he believed10 min
14. 14Bk 01, ch. 14: What he thought7 min
15. 15Bk 02, ch. 01: The Evening of a Day of Walking28 min
16. 16Bk 02, ch. 02: Prudence counselled to Wisdom10 min
17. 17Bk 02, ch. 03: The Heroism of Passive Obedience14 min
18. 18Bk 02, ch. 04: Details concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier8 min
19. 19Bk 02, ch. 05: Tranquillity3 min
20. 20Bk 02, ch. 06: Jean Valjean14 min
21. 21Bk 02, ch. 07: The Interior of Despair18 min
22. 22Bk 02, ch. 08: Billows and Shadows7 min
23. 23Bk 02, ch. 09: New Troubles3 min
24. 24Bk 02, ch. 10: The Man aroused8 min
25. 25Bk 02, ch. 11: What he does11 min
26. 26Bk 02, ch. 12: The Bishop works9 min
27. 27Bk 02, ch. 13: Little Gervais25 min
28. 28Bk 03, ch. 01: The Year 181719 min
29. 29Bk 03, ch. 02: A Double Quartette11 min
30. 30Bk 03, ch. 03: Four and Four8 min

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