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Misérables, Volume 1

Victor Hugo

13 h 46 min · 71 chapters · read by 30 LibriVox volunteers

The first volume of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Fantine. Jean Valjean is released after nineteen years of hard labour for stealing bread, is taken in by a bishop who changes his life and builds a new one under another name, until the police inspector Javert begins to recognize him. The first part of Hugo's long novel, read by a group of LibriVox volunteers.

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Chapters

  1. Preface1:03
  2. Bk 01, ch. 01: M. Myriel7:03
  3. Bk 01, ch. 02: M. Myriel becomes M. Welcome 11:38
  4. Bk 01, ch. 03: A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop4:54
  5. Bk 01, ch. 04: Works corresponding to Words17:46
  6. Bk 01, ch. 05: Monseigneur Bienvenu made his Cassocks last too long6:47
  7. Bk 01, ch. 06: Who guarded his House for him13:04
  8. Bk 01, ch. 07: Cravatte8:12
  9. Bk 01, ch. 08: Philosophy after Drinking8:56
  10. Bk 01, ch. 09: The Brother as depicted by the Sister8:49
  11. Bk 01, ch. 10: The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light35:19
  12. Bk 01, ch. 11: A Restriction10:51
  13. Bk 01, ch. 12: The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome7:37
  14. Bk 01, ch. 13: What he believed10:40
  15. Bk 01, ch. 14: What he thought7:09
  16. Bk 02, ch. 01: The Evening of a Day of Walking28:01
  17. Bk 02, ch. 02: Prudence counselled to Wisdom10:52
  18. Bk 02, ch. 03: The Heroism of Passive Obedience14:26
  19. Bk 02, ch. 04: Details concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier8:57
  20. Bk 02, ch. 05: Tranquillity3:46
  21. Bk 02, ch. 06: Jean Valjean14:24
  22. Bk 02, ch. 07: The Interior of Despair18:23
  23. Bk 02, ch. 08: Billows and Shadows7:39
  24. Bk 02, ch. 09: New Troubles3:45
  25. Bk 02, ch. 10: The Man aroused8:41
  26. Bk 02, ch. 11: What he does11:23
  27. Bk 02, ch. 12: The Bishop works9:03
  28. Bk 02, ch. 13: Little Gervais25:32
  29. Bk 03, ch. 01: The Year 181719:48
  30. Bk 03, ch. 02: A Double Quartette11:20
  31. Bk 03, ch. 03: Four and Four8:51
  32. Bk 03, ch. 04: Tholomyes is so Merry that he sings a Spanish Ditty6:18
  33. Bk 03, ch. 05: At Bombardas7:10
  34. Bk 03, ch. 06: A Chapter in which they adore Each Other3:42
  35. Bk 03, ch. 07: The Wisdom of Tholomyes14:58
  36. Bk 03, ch. 08: The Death of a Horse5:49
  37. Bk 03, ch. 09: A Merry End to Mirth6:50
  38. Bk 04, ch. 01: One Mother meets Another Mother18:57
  39. Bk 04, ch. 02: First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures5:11
  40. Bk 04, ch. 03: The Lark6:13
  41. Bk 05, ch. 01: The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets4:02
  42. Bk 05, ch. 02: Madeleine8:51
  43. Bk 05, ch. 03: Sums deposited with Laffitte7:18
  44. Bk 05, ch. 04: M. Madeleine in Mourning5:54
  45. Bk 05, ch. 05: Vague Flashes on the Horizon14:05
  46. Bk 05, ch. 06: Father Fauchelevent6:51
  47. Bk 05, ch. 07: Fauchelevent becomes a Gardener in Paris4:15
  48. Bk 05, ch. 08: Madame Victurnien expends Thirty Francs on Morality7:29
  49. Bk 05, ch. 09: Madame Victurnien's Success6:28
  50. Bk 05, ch. 10: Result of the Success12:36
  51. Bk 05, ch. 11: Christus nos Liberavit3:04
  52. Bk 05, ch. 12: M. Bamatabois's Inactivity6:27
  53. Bk 05, ch. 13: The Solution of Some Questions connected with the Municipal Police26:11
  54. Bk 06, ch. 01: The Beginning of Repose10:28
  55. Bk 06, ch. 02: How Jean may become Champ23:30
  56. Bk 07, ch. 01: Sister Simplice9:41
  57. Bk 07, ch. 02: The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire12:23
  58. Bk 07, ch. 03: A Tempest in a Skull48:49
  59. Bk 07, ch. 04: Forms assumed by Suffering during Sleep8:32
  60. Bk 07, ch. 05: Hindrances22:39
  61. Bk 07, ch. 06: Sister Simplice put to the Proof14:38
  62. Bk 07, ch. 07: The Traveller on his Arrival takes Precautions for Departure9:46
  63. Bk 07, ch. 08: An Entrance by Favor7:08
  64. Bk 07, ch. 09: A Place where Convictions are in Process of Formation20:55
  65. Bk 07, ch. 10: The System of Denials21:31
  66. Bk 07, ch. 11: Champmathieu more and more Astonished10:44
  67. Bk 08, ch. 01: In what Mirror M. Madeleine contemplates his Hair6:33
  68. Bk 08, ch. 02: Fantine Happy11:13
  69. Bk 08, ch. 03: Javert Satisfied10:30
  70. Bk 08, ch. 04: Authority reasserts its Rights9:55
  71. Bk 08, ch. 05: A Suitable Tomb13:45

Read by A.P. Goldstein, Ancilla, Annise, B. Grebe, Catharine Eastman, Charlene V. Smith, Clarke Bell, David Jaquay, Garrett Fitzgerald, Graeme Jolliffe, Heather Barnett, Jc Guan, Joel Poortenga, Jordan, Kalynda, Lisa Chau, Mat Messerschmidt, Melissa, Peter Eastman, Robin Cotter, Ryan T., Sarah Jennings, Sean O'Hara, Sibella Denton, Tamara Hamilton, Varra Unreal, Zachary Brewster-Geisz, ink tree, johnb, jpride.

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