The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History

Name: The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
Author: Victor Hugo

by Victor Hugo

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Preliminary Chapter
Another Preliminary Chapter
Chapter I. Portland Bill
Chapter II. Left Alone
Chapter III. Alone
Chapter IV. Questions
Chapter V. The Tree of Human Invention
Chapter VI. Struggle Between Death and Life
Chapter VII. The North Point of Portland
Chapter I. Superhuman Laws
Chapter II. Our First Rough Sketches Filled in
Chapter III. Troubled Men on the Troubled Sea
Chapter IV. A Cloud Different from the Others Enters on the Scene
Chapter V. Hardquanonne
Chapter VI. They Think That Help Is at Hand
Chapter VII. Superhuman Horrors
Chapter VIII. Nix Et Nox
Chapter IX. The Charge Confided to a Raging Sea
Chapter X. The Colossal Savage, the Storm
Chapter XI. The Caskets
Chapter XII. Face to Face with the Rock
Chapter XIII. Face to Face with Night
Chapter XIV. Ortach
Chapter XV. Portentosum Mare
Chapter XVI. The Problem Suddenly Works in Silence
Chapter XVII. The Last Resource
Chapter XVIII. The Highest Resource
Chapter I. Chesil
Chapter II. The Effect of Snow
Chapter III. A Burden Makes a Rough Road Rougher
Chapter IV. Another Form of Desert
Chapter V. Misanthropy Plays Its Pranks
Chapter VI. The Awaking
Chapter I. Lord Clancharlie
Chapter II. Lord David Dirry-Moir
Chapter III. The Duchess Josiana
Chapter IV. The Leader of Fashion
Chapter V. Queen Anne
Chapter VI. Barkilphedro
Chapter VII. Barkilphedro Gnaws His Way
Chapter VIII. Inferi
Chapter IX. Hate Is as Strong as Love
Chapter X. The Flame Which Would Be Seen If Man Were Transparent
Chapter XI. Barkilphedro in Ambuscade
Chapter XII. Scotland, Ireland, and England
Chapter I. Wherein We See the Face of Him of Whom We Have Hitherto Seen Only the Acts
Chapter II. Dea
Chapter III. "Oculos Non Habet, Et Videt."
Chapter IV. Well-Matched Lovers
Chapter V. The Blue Sky Through the Black Cloud
Chapter VI. Ursus as Tutor, and Ursus as Guardian
Chapter VII. Blindness Gives Lessons in Clairvoyance
Chapter VIII. Not Only Happiness, but Prosperity
Chapter IX. Absurdities Which Folks Without Taste Call Poetry
Chapter X. An Outsider's View of Men and Things
Chapter XI. Gwynplaine Thinks Justice, and Ursus Talks Truth
Chapter XII. Ursus the Poet Drags on Ursus the Philosopher
Chapter I. The Tadcaster Inn
Chapter II. Open-Air Eloquence
Chapter III. Where the Passer-by Reappears
Chapter IV. Contraries Fraternize in Hate
Chapter V. The Wapentake
Chapter VI. The Mouse Examined by the Cats
Chapter VII. Why Should a Gold Piece Lower Itself by Mixing with a Heap of Pennies?
Chapter VIII. Symptoms of Poisoning
Chapter IX. Abyssus Abyssum Vocat
Chapter I. The Temptation of St. Gwynplaine
Chapter II. From Gay to Grave
Chapter III. Lex, Rex, Fex
Chapter IV. Ursus Spies the Police
Chapter V. A Fearful Place
Chapter VI. The Kind of Magistracy Under the Wigs of Former Days
Chapter VII. Shuddering
Chapter VIII. Lamentation
Chapter I. The Durability of Fragile Things
Chapter II. The Waif Knows Its Own Course
Chapter III. An Awakening
Chapter IV. Fascination
Chapter V. We Think We Remember; We Forget
Chapter I. What the Misanthrope Said
Chapter II. What He Did
Chapter III. Complications
Chapter IV. Moenibus Surdis Campana Muta
Chapter V. State Policy Deals with Little Matters as Well as with Great
Chapter I. The Awakening
Chapter II. The Resemblance of a Palace to a Wood
Chapter III. Eve
Chapter IV. Satan
Chapter V. They Recognize, but Do Not Know, Each Other
Chapter I. Analysis of Majestic Matters
Chapter II. Impartiality
Chapter III. The Old Hall
Chapter IV. The Old Chamber
Chapter V. Aristocratic Gossip
Chapter VI. The High and the Low
Chapter VII. Storms of Men Are Worse Than Storms of Oceans
Chapter VIII. He Would Be a Good Brother, Were He Not a Good Son
Chapter I. It Is Through Excess of Greatness That Man Reaches Excess of Misery
Chapter II. The Dregs
Chapter I. A Watch-Dog May Be a Guardian Angel
Chapter II. Barkilphedro, Having Aimed at the Eagle, Brings Down the Dove
Chapter III. Paradise Regained Below
Chapter IV. Nay; On High!

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