/lit/'s Top 100 Books of All Time
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
1 min to start
37 hrs to read
Volume II
Cosette
Book I - Waterloo
I - What Is Met with on the Way from Nivelles
2 mins
II - Hougomont
10 mins
III - The Eighteenth of June, 1815
3 mins
IV - A
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
XV - Cambronne
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
IV - Gayeties
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
V - Prayer
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
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Waterloo
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