/lit/'s Top 100 Books of All Time
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
1 min to start
37 hrs to read
Volume III
Book I - Paris Studied in Its Atom
I - Parvulus
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
IV - M. Mabeuf
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
IX - Eclipse
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
XX - The Trap
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
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