Les Miserables - /r/TrueLit's Top 100 Books (2020) | 26reads

/r/TrueLit's Top 100 Books (2020)

37 hrs to read

Contents

1 min

Volume I - Fantine

Book I - A Just Man

4 mins

II - M. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome

6 mins

III - A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop

3 mins

IV - Works Corresponding to Words

11 mins

V - Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long

3 mins

VI - Who Guarded His House for Him

8 mins

5 mins

VIII - Philosophy After Drinking

5 mins

IX - The Brother as Depicted by the Sister

1 min

X - The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light

18 mins

XI - A Restriction

6 mins

XII - The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome

4 mins

XIII - What He Believed

6 mins

XIV - What He Thought

3 mins

Book II - The Fall

I - The Evening of a Day of Walking

17 mins

II - Prudence Counselled to Wisdom

5 mins

III - The Heroism of Passive Obedience

8 mins

IV - Details Concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier

1 min

V - Tranquillity

2 mins

VI - Jean Valjean

8 mins

VII - The Interior of Despair

11 mins

VIII - Billows and Shadows

3 mins

IX - New Troubles

1 min

X - The Man Aroused

4 mins

XI - What He Does

5 mins

XII - The Bishop Works

4 mins

XIII - Little Gervais

13 mins

Book III - In the Year 1817

I - The Year 1817

8 mins

II - A Double Quartette

6 mins

III - Four and Four

5 mins

IV - Tholomyès Is So Merry That He Sings a Spanish Ditty

3 mins

V - At Bombarda’s

3 mins

VI - A Chapter in Which They Adore Each Other

2 mins

VII - The Wisdom of Tholomyès

8 mins

VIII - The Death of a Horse

3 mins

IX - A Merry End to Mirth

2 mins

Book IV - To Confide Is Sometimes to Deliver Into a Person’s Power

I - One Mother Meets Another Mother

13 mins

II - First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures

3 mins

4 mins

Book V - The Descent

I - The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets

2 mins

5 mins

III - Sums Deposited with Laffitte

4 mins

IV - M. Madeleine in Mourning

3 mins

V - Vague Flashes on the Horizon

8 mins

VI - Father Fauchelevent

3 mins

VII - Fauchelevent Becomes a Gardener in Paris

1 min

VIII - Madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs on Morality

4 mins

IX - Madame Victurnien’s Success

3 mins

X - Result of the Success

7 mins

XI - Christus Nos Liberavit

1 min

XII - M. Bamatabois’s Inactivity

3 mins

XIII - The Solution of Some Questions Connected with the Municipal Police

15 mins

Book VI - Javert

I - The Beginning of Repose

4 mins

II - How Jean May Become Champ

12 mins

Book VII - The Champmathieu Affair

I - Sister Simplice

4 mins

II - The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire

6 mins

III - A Tempest in a Skull

30 mins

IV - Forms Assumed by Suffering During Sleep

2 mins

16 mins

VI - Sister Simplice Put to the Proof

9 mins

VII - The Traveller on His Arrival Takes Precautions for Departure

6 mins

VIII - An Entrance by Favor

5 mins

IX - A Place Where Convictions Are in Process of Formation

10 mins

X - The System of Denials

11 mins

XI - Champmathieu More and More Astonished

6 mins

Book VIII - A Counterblow

I - In What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair

3 mins

II - Fantine Happy

5 mins

III - Javert Satisfied

5 mins

IV - Authority Reasserts Its Rights

5 mins

V - A Suitable Tomb

8 mins

Volume II - Cosette

Book I - Waterloo

I - What Is Met with on the Way from Nivelles

2 mins

10 mins

III - The Eighteenth of June, 1815

3 mins

2 mins

V - The Quid Obscurum of Battles

4 mins

VI - Four O’Clock in the Afternoon

4 mins

VII - Napoleon in a Good Humor

8 mins

VIII - The Emperor Puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste

3 mins

IX - The Unexpected

5 mins

X - The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean

7 mins

XI - A Bad Guide to Napoleon; A Good Guide to Bülow

2 mins

XII - The Guard

2 mins

XIII - The Catastrophe

3 mins

XIV - The Last Square

1 min

3 mins

XVI - Quot Libras in Duce?

7 mins

XVII - Is Waterloo to Be Considered Good?

2 mins

XVIII - A Recrudescence of Divine Right

3 mins

XIX - The Battlefield at Night

9 mins

Book II - The Ship Orion

I - Number 24,601 Becomes Number 9,430

4 mins

II - In Which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, Which Are of the Devil’s Composition, Possibly

7 mins

III - The Ankle-Chain Must Have Undergone a Certain Preparatory Manipulation to Be Thus Broken with a Blow from a Hammer

12 mins

Book III - Accomplishment of the Promise Made to the Dead Woman

I - The Water Question at Montfermeil

5 mins

II - Two Complete Portraits

7 mins

III - Men Must Have Wine, and Horses Must Have Water

3 mins

IV - Entrance on the Scene of a Doll

2 mins

V - The Little One All Alone

8 mins

VI - Which Possibly Proves Boulatruelle’s Intelligence

7 mins

VII - Cosette Side by Side with the Stranger in the Dark

3 mins

VIII - The Unpleasantness of Receiving Into One’s House a Poor Man Who May Be a Rich Man

25 mins

IX - Thénardier and His Manouvres

11 mins

X - He Who Seeks to Better Himself May Render His Situation Worse

7 mins

XI - Number 9,430 Reappears, and Cosette Wins It in the Lottery

2 mins

Book IV - The Gorbeau Hovel

I - Master Gorbeau

9 mins

II - A Nest for Owl and a Warbler

2 mins

III - Two Misfortunes Make One Piece of Good Fortune

6 mins

IV - The Remarks of the Principal Tenant

3 mins

V - A Five-Franc Piece Falls on the Ground and Produces a Tumult

5 mins

Book V - For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack

I - The Zigzags of Strategy

5 mins

II - It Is Lucky That the Pont d’Austerlitz Bears Carriages

2 mins

III - To Wit, the Plan of Paris in 1727

4 mins

IV - The Gropings of Flight

3 mins

V - Which Would Be Impossible with Gas Lanterns

5 mins

VI - The Beginning of an Enigma

3 mins

VII - Continuation of the Enigma

2 mins

VIII - The Enigma Becomes Doubly Mysterious

2 mins

IX - The Man with the Bell

5 mins

X - Which Explains How Javert Got on the Scent

13 mins

Book VI - Le Petit-Picpus

I - Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus

5 mins

II - The Obedience of Martin Verga

10 mins

III - Austerities

2 mins

4 mins

V - Distractions

8 mins

VI - The Little Convent

3 mins

VII - Some Silhouettes of This Darkness

3 mins

VIII - Post Corda Lapides

2 mins

IX - A Century Under a Guimpe

2 mins

X - Origin of the Perpetual Adoration

2 mins

XI - End of the Petit-Picpus

2 mins

Book VII - Parenthesis

I - The Convent as an Abstract Idea

1 min

II - The Convent as an Historical Fact

4 mins

III - On What Conditions One Can Respect the Past

3 mins

IV - The Convent from the Point of View of Principles

2 mins

1 min

VI - The Absolute Goodness of Prayer

3 mins

VII - Precautions to Be Observed in Blame

1 min

VIII - Faith, Law

2 mins

Book VIII - Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them

I - Which Treats of the Manner of Entering a Convent

11 mins

II - Fauchelevent in the Presence of a Difficulty

3 mins

III - Mother Innocente

13 mins

IV - In Which Jean Valjean Has Quite the Air of Having Read Austin Castillejo

8 mins

V - It Is Not Necessary to Be Drunk in Order to Be Immortal

8 mins

VI - Between Four Planks

2 mins

VII - In Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying: Don’t Lose the Card

10 mins

VIII - A Successful Interrogatory

4 mins

IX - Cloistered

10 mins

Book I - Paris Studied in Its Atom

1 min

II - Some of His Particular Characteristics

1 min

III - He Is Agreeable

1 min

IV - He May Be of Use

1 min

V - His Frontiers

3 mins

VI - A Bit of History

2 mins

VII - The Gamin Should Have His Place in the Classifications of India

2 mins

VIII - In Which the Reader Will Find a Charming Saying of the Last King

2 mins

IX - The Old Soul of Gaul

1 min

X - Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo

4 mins

XI - To Scoff, to Reign

3 mins

XII - The Future Latent in the People

1 min

XIII - Little Gavroche

3 mins

Book II - The Great Bourgeois

I - Ninety Years and Thirty-Two Teeth

2 mins

II - Like Master, Like House

1 min

III - Luc-Esprit

1 min

IV - A Centenarian Aspirant

1 min

V - Basque and Nicolette

1 min

VI - In Which Magnon and Her Two Children Are Seen

3 mins

VII - Rule: Receive No One Except in the Evening

1 min

VIII - Two Do Not Make a Pair

3 mins

Book III - The Grandfather and the Grandson

I - An Ancient Salon

4 mins

II - One of the Red Spectres of That Epoch

10 mins

III - Requiescant

11 mins

IV - End of the Brigand

4 mins

V - The Utility of Going to Mass, in Order to Become a Revolutionist

2 mins

VI - The Consequences of Having Met a Warden

10 mins

VII - Some Petticoat

6 mins

VIII - Marble Against Granite

7 mins

Book IV - The Friends of the A.B.C.

I - A Group Which Barely Missed Becoming Historic

20 mins

II - Blondeau’s Funeral Oration by Bossuet

4 mins

III - Marius’ Astonishments

2 mins

IV - The Back Room of the Café Musain

11 mins

V - Enlargement of Horizon

5 mins

VI - Res Angusta

3 mins

Book V - The Excellence of Misfortune

I - Marius Indigent

3 mins

II - Marius Poor

5 mins

III - Marius Grown Up

7 mins

6 mins

V - Poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery

3 mins

VI - The Substitute

6 mins

Book VI - The Conjunction of Two Stars

I - The Sobriquet: Mode of Formation of Family Names

4 mins

II - Lux Facta Est

3 mins

III - Effect of the Spring

1 min

IV - Beginning of a Great Malady

4 mins

V - Diverse Claps of Thunder Fall on Ma’am Bougon

1 min

VI - Taken Prisoner

4 mins

VII - Adventures of the Letter U Delivered Over to Conjectures

2 mins

VIII - The Veterans Themselves Can Be Happy

2 mins

3 mins

Book VII - Patron Minette

I - Mines and Miners

3 mins

II - The Lowest Depths

2 mins

III - Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse

3 mins

IV - Composition of the Troupe

3 mins

Book VIII - The Wicked Poor Man

I - Marius, While Seeking a Girl in a Bonnet, Encounters a Man in a Cap

2 mins

II - Treasure Trove

2 mins

III - Quadrifrons

2 mins

IV - A Rose in Misery

9 mins

V - A Providential Peephole

3 mins

VI - The Wild Man in His Lair

6 mins

VII - Strategy and Tactics

4 mins

VIII - The Ray of Light in the Hovel

3 mins

IX - Jondrette Comes Near Weeping

5 mins

X - Tariff of Licensed Cabs: Two Francs an Hour

5 mins

XI - Offers of Service from Misery to Wretchedness

3 mins

XII - The Use Made of M. Leblanc’s Five-Franc Piece

6 mins

XIII - Solus Cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, Non Cogitabuntur Orare Pater Noster

3 mins

XIV - In Which a Police Agent Bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer

4 mins

XV - Jondrette Makes His Purchases

3 mins

XVI - In Which Will Be Found the Words to an English Air Which Was in Fashion in 1832

4 mins

XVII - The Use Made of Marius’ Five-Franc Piece

5 mins

XVIII - Marius’ Two Chairs Form a Vis-a-Vis

2 mins

XIX - Occupying One’s Self with Obscure Depths

6 mins

37 mins

XXI - One Should Always Begin by Arresting the Victims

4 mins

XXII - The Little One Who Was Crying in Volume Two

2 mins

Book I - A Few Pages of History

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

11 mins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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