Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood

366 chapters · about 41 h

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The opening

I M. Myriel

Fantine

A Just Man

M. Myriel

In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne. He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of Digne since 1806.

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About this edition

The words
Isabel F. Hapgood's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 39 places
  • Other material that isn't the author's
  • The source website's menus, layout and notices, in 2 places
  • The source library's header, footer and license
  • Notes about a stage production, in 2 places
  • ... and 37 more kinds of left-out material, listed in the edition record

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