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Victor Hugo. Essential Novelists - Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
Volume I - Fantine
Preface
Book First. A Just Man
Book Second. The Fall
Book Third. In The Year 1817
Book Fourth. To Confide Is Sometimes To Deliver Into A Person’s Power
Book Fifth. The Descent
Book Sixth. Javert
Book Seventh. The Champmathieu Affair
Book Eighth. A Counter Blow
Volume II. Cosette
Book First. Waterloo
Book Second. The Ship Orion
Book Third. Accomplishment Of The Promise Made To The Dead Woman
Book Fourth. The Gorbeau Hovel
Book Fifth. For A Black Hunt, A Mute Pack
Book Sixth. Le Petit-Picpus
Book Seventh. Parenthesis
Book Eighth. Cemeteries Take That Which Is Committed Them
Volume III. Marius. Book First. Parus Studied In Its Atom
Book Second. The Great Bourgeois
Book Third. The Grandfather And The Grandson
Book Fourth. The Friends Of The A B C
Book Fifth. The Excellence Of Misfortune
Book Sixth. The Conjunction Of Two Stars
Book Seventh. Patron Minette
Book Eighth. The Wicked Poor Man
Volume IV. Saint Denis
Book First. A Few Pages Of History
Book Second. Éponine
BOOK THIRD. THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET
BOOK FOURTH. SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH
BOOK FIFTH. THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING
BOOK SIXTH. LITTLE GAVROCHE
Book Seventh. Slang
Book Eighth. Enchantments And Desolations
Book Ninth. Whither Are They Going?
Book Tenth. The 5th Of June, 1832
Book Eleventh. The Atom Fraternizes With The Hurricane
Book Twelfth. Corinthe
Book Thirteenth. Marius Enters The Shadow
Book Fourteenth. The Grandeurs Of Despair
Book Fifteenth. THE RUE DE L’HOMME ARMÉ
Volume V. Jean Valjean
Book First. The War Between Four Walls
Book Second. The Intestine Of The Leviathan
Book Third. Mud But The Soul
Book Fourth. Javert Derailed
Book Fifth. Grandson And Grandfather
Book Sixth. The Sleepless Night
Book Seventh. The Last Draught From The Cup
Book Eighth. Fading Away Of The Twilight
Book Ninth. Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn
Notre-Dame de Paris
VOLUME I. BOOK FIRST
BOOK SECOND
BOOK THIRD
BOOK FOURTH
BOOK FIFTH
BOOK SIXTH
VOLUME II. BOOK SEVENTH
BOOK EIGHTH
BOOK NINTH
BOOK TENTH
BOOK ELEVENTH
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Never had the two ideas which governed the unhappy man whose sufferings we are narrating, engaged in so serious a struggle. He understood this confusedly but profoundly at the very first words pronounced by Javert, when the latter entered his study. At the moment when that name, which he had buried beneath so many layers, was so strangely articulated, he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister eccentricity of his destiny; and through this stupor he felt that shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault. He felt shadows filled with thunders and lightnings descending upon his head. As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to go, to run and denounce himself, to take that Champmathieu out of prison and place himself there; this was as painful and as poignant as an incision in the living flesh. Then it passed away, and he said to himself, “We will see! We will see!” He repressed this first, generous instinct, and recoiled before heroism.
It would be beautiful, no doubt, after the Bishop’s holy words, after so many years of repentance and abnegation, in the midst of a penitence admirably begun, if this man had not flinched for an instant, even in the presence of so terrible a conjecture, but had continued to walk with the same step towards this yawning precipice, at the bottom of which lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must render an account of the things which went on in this soul, and we can only tell what there was there. He was carried away, at first, by the instinct of self-preservation; he rallied all his ideas in haste, stifled his emotions, took into consideration Javert’s presence, that great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook off thought as to what he had to do, and resumed his calmness as a warrior picks up his buckler.
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