Les Misérables

The Signet version I have is 
"the only complete and unabridged paperback edition".
It's 1463 pages long.

Apparently Hugo's alternation of dramatic action
and less intense discursive chapters is a notable
characteristic of the book.



||| FANTINE      PP  001 THRU  300


Jean Valjean did not club the Bishop of Digne with the miner' drill
he intended to use to break into the cabinet
as he stole the basket of silver.                  p 102


A person who came to be known as Father Madeline shows (1815) up in
the town to which Fantine, Cosette's mother had returned, Montreul-sur-mer and 
improves the bead factory  p 158                       


||| COSSETTE     PP  301 THRU  574

- The battle of Waterloo (1815) and the introduction of 
Thénardier (scavenging gold rings off dead bodies). pages 301-368 


Jean Valjean continues on to get Cosette (1820?).


||| MARIUS       PP  575 THRU  820

-The secret house on the Rue Plumet  pp 877 thru 1046
-Eponine, one of Thénardier's daughters,
is a significant character: she loves Maurius,
who is blinded to this by his attraction to Cosette.
Eponine saved Cossette and Jean Valjean from Thénardier's thugs.

-The emeute, riot, of June 5 & 6, 1832, gets pages 1047-1330.

||| SAINT-DENIS  PP  821 THRU 1168
||| JEAN VALJEAN PP 1169 THRU 1463


-Jean Valjean did not risk killing Javert by beating
his head against a stone wall.  Instead, he let himself
be arrested and put into the Montreuil-sur-mer prison
after asserting that Javert had killed Fantine.
He broke out.

-Pages 1312-1330 describe Javert's awakening and suicide.
He is alone when he dies.  The awakening is more compressed in the DVD
than I'd like.