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Fantine. 1. An upright man -- 2. The fall -- 3. The year 1817 -- 4. To entrust is sometimes to abandon -- 5. The descent -- 6. Javert -- 7. The Champmathieu affair -- 8. Counter-stroke

The novel traces the life of Jean-Valjean, a 19th century Parisan peasant who steals a loaf of bread to feed his starving children, and thereby becomes criminalized as a convict. This story of how he struggles to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, has become a powerful social document and the gospel of the poor and the oppressed

"This edition is the classic English translation of Hugo's friend Charles Wilbour, which appeared [in] the same year the novel was published in France."--Front flap of dust jacket

Cosette. 1. Waterloo -- 2. The ship Orion -- 3. Fulfillment of the promise to the departed -- 4. The old Gorbeau house -- 5. A dark chase needs a silent hound -- 6. Petit Picpus -- 7. A parenthesis -- 8. Cemeteries take what is given them

Series statements from dust jacket

Marius. 1. Paris atomised -- 2. The grand Bourgeois -- 3. The grandfather and the grandson -- 4. The friends of the A B C -- 5. The excellence of misfortune -- 6. The conjunction of two starts -- 7. Patron-minette -- 8. The noxious poor

Illustrated lining pages printed with publisher's device

St. Denis. 1. A few pages of history -- 2. Eponine -- 3. The house in the Rue Plumet -- 4. Aid from below may be aid from above -- 5. The end of which is unlike the beginning -- 6. Little Gavroche -- 7. Argot -- 8. Enchantments and desolation -- 9. Where are they going -- 10. June 5th, 1832 -- 11. The atom fraternises with the hurricane -- 12. Corinth -- 13. Marius enters the shadow -- 14. The grandeurs of despair -- 15. The Rue de l'Homme Armé

"The principal text of this Modern Library edition was set in a digitized version of Janson, a typeface that dates from about 1690 and was cut by Nicholas Kis, a Hungarian working in Amsterdam. The original matrices have survived and are held by the Stempel foundry in Germany. Hermann Zapf redesigned some of the weights and sizes for Stempel, basing his revisions on the original design."--Colophon

Jean Valjean. 1. War between four walls -- 2. The intestine of Leviathan -- 3. Mire, but soul -- 4. Javert off the track -- 5. The grandson and the grandfather -- 6. The white night -- 7. The last drop in the chalice -- 8. The twilight wane -- 9. Supreme shadow, supreme dawn

"Biographical note copyright © 1992 by Random House, Inc."--Verso, title page

Translated from the French