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The Man Who Laughs

By Victor Hugo

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Title:     The Man Who Laughs
Author: Victor Hugo

Table of Content

Preliminary Chapters

Part 1: Book 1. Night Not So Black As Man
1. Chapter 1. Portland bill.
2. Chapter 2. Left Alone
3. Chapter 3. Alone
4. Chapter 4. Questions
5. Chapter 5. The Tree Of Human Invention
6. Chapter 6. Struggle Between Death And Life
7. Chapter 7. The North Point Of Portland

Part 1: Book 2. The Hooker At Sea
1. Chapter 1. Superhuman Laws
2. Chapter 2. Our First Rough Sketches Filled In
3. Chapter 3. Troubled Men On The Troubled Sea
4. Chapter 4. A Cloud Different From The Others...
5. Chapter 5. Hardquanonne
6. Chapter 6. They Think That Help Is At Hand
7. Chapter 7. Superhuman Horrors
8. Chapter 8. Nix Et Nox
9. Chapter 9. The Charge Confided To A Raging Sea
10. Chapter 10. The Colossal Savage, The Storm
11. Chapter 11. The Caskets
12. Chapter 12. Face To Face With The Rock
13. Chapter 13. Face To Face With Night
14. Chapter 14. Ortach
15. Chapter 15. Portentosum Mare
16. Chapter 16. The Problem Suddenly Works In Silence
17. Chapter 17. The Last Resource
18. Chapter 18. The Highest Resource

Part 1. Book 3. The Child In The Shadow
1. Chapter 1. Chesil
2. Chapter 2. The Effect Of Snow
3. Chapter 3. A Burden Makes A Rough Road Rougher
4. Chapter 4. Another Form Of Desert
5. Chapter 5. Misanthropy Plays Its Pranks
6. Chapter 6. The Awaking

Part 2: Book 1. The Everlasting Presence Of The Past...
1. Chapter 1. Lord Clancharlie
2. Chapter 2. Lord David Dirry-Moir
3. Chapter 3. The Duchess Josiana
4. Chapter 4. The Leader Of Fashion
5. Chapter 5. Queen Anne
6. Chapter 6. Barkilphedro
7. Chapter 7. Barkilphedro Gnaws His Way
8. Chapter 8. Inferi
9. Chapter 9. Hate Is As Strong As Love
10. Chapter 10. The Flame...
11. Chapter 11. Barkilphedro In Ambuscade
12. Chapter 12. Scotland, Ireland, And England

Part 2: Book 2. Gwynplaine And Dea
1. Chapter 1. Wherein We See The Face Of Him...
2. Chapter 2. Dea
3. Chapter 3. "Oculos Non Habet, Et Videt."
4. Chapter 4. Well-Matched Lovers
5. Chapter 5. The Blue Sky Through The Black Cloud
6. Chapter 6. Ursus As Tutor, And Ursus As Guardian
7. Chapter 7. Blindness Gives Lessons In Clairvoyance
8. Chapter 8. Not Only Happiness, But Prosperity
9. Chapter 9. Absurdities Which Folks Without Taste Call Poetry
10. Chapter 10. An Outsider's View Of Men And Things
11. Chapter 11. Gwynplaine Thinks Justice, And Ursus Talks Truth
12. Chapter 12. Ursus The Poet Drags On Ursus The Philosopher

Part 2: Book 3. The Beginning Of The Fissure
1. Chapter 1. The Tadcaster Inn
2. Chapter 2. Open-Air Eloquence
3. Chapter 3. Where The Passer-By Reappears
4. Chapter 4. Contraries Fraternize In Hate
5. Chapter 5. The Wapentake
6. Chapter 6. The Mouse Examined...
7. Chapter 7. Why Should A Gold Piece...?
8. Chapter 8. Symptoms Of Poisoning
9. Chapter 9. Abyssus Abyssum Vocat

Part 2: Book 4. The Cell Of Torture
1. Chapter 1. The Temptation Of St. Gwynplaine
2. Chapter 2. From Gay To Grave
3. Chapter 3. Lex, Rex, Fex
4. Chapter 4. Ursus Spies The Police
5. Chapter 5. A Fearful Place
6. Chapter 6. The Kind Of Magistracy Under The Wigs Of Former Days
7. Chapter 7. Shuddering
8. Chapter 8. Lamentation

Part 2: Book 5. The Sea And Fate...
1. Chapter 1. The Durability Of Fragile Things
2. Chapter 2. The Waif Knows Its Own Course
3. Chapter 3. An Awakening
4. Chapter 4. Fascination
5. Chapter 5. We Think We Remember; We Forget

Part 2: Book 6. Ursus Under Different Aspects
1. Chapter 1. What The Misanthrope Said
2. Chapter 2. What He Did
3. Chapter 3. Complications
4. Chapter 4. Moenibus Surdis...
5. Chapter 5. State Policy...

Part 2: Book 7. The Titaness
1. Chapter 1. The Awakening
2. Chapter 2. The Resemblance Of A Palace To A Wood
3. Chapter 3. Eve
4. Chapter 4. Satan
5. Chapter 5. They Recognize, But Do Not Know, Each Other

Part 2: Book 8. The Capitol And Things Around It
1. Chapter 1. Analysis Of Majestic Matters
2. Chapter 2. Impartiality
3. Chapter 3. The Old Hall
4. Chapter 4. The Old Chamber
5. Chapter 5. Aristocratic Gossip
6. Chapter 6. The High And The Low
7. Chapter 7. Storms Of Men Are Worse Than Storms Of Oceans
8. Chapter 8. He Would Be A Good Brother...

Part 2: Book 9. In Ruins
1. Chapter 1. It Is Through Excess Of Greatness...
2. Chapter 2. The Dregs

Conclusion. The Night And The Sea
1. Chapter 1. A Watch-Dog May Be A Guardian Angel
2. Chapter 2. Barkilphedro, Having Aimed At The Eagle, Brings Down The Dove
3. Chapter 3. Paradise Regained Below
4. Chapter 4. Nay; On High!

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