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The Man Who Laughs

by Victor Hugo

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  1. 1IV — Nay; on High! — The Laughing Man — A Romance of English History
  2. 2Another Preliminary Chapter
  3. 3Part I — Book the First — Night Not So Black as Man
  4. 4Chapter II — Left Alone
  5. 5Chapter III — Alone
  6. 6Chapter IV — Questions
  7. 7Chapter V — The Tree of Human Invention
  8. 8Chapter VI — Struggle Between Death and Life
  9. 9Chapter VII — The North Point of Portland
  10. 10Book the Second — The Hooker at Sea
  11. 11Chapter II — Our First Rough Sketches Filled In
  12. 12Chapter III — Troubled Men on the Troubled Sea
  13. 13Chapter IV — A Cloud Different From the Others Enters on the Scene
  14. 14Chapter V — Hardquanonne
  15. 15Chapter VI — They Think That Help Is at Hand
  16. 16Chapter VII — Superhuman Horrors
  17. 17Chapter VIII — Nix et Nox
  18. 18Chapter IX — The Charge Confided to a Raging Sea
  19. 19Chapter X — The Colossal Savage, the Storm
  20. 20Chapter XI — The Caskets
  21. 21Chapter XII — Face to Face With the Rock
  22. 22Chapter XIII — Face to Face With Night
  23. 23Chapter XIV — Ortach
  24. 24Chapter XV — Portentosum Mare
  25. 25Chapter XVI — The Problem Suddenly Works in Silence
  26. 26Chapter XVII — The Last Resource
  27. 27Chapter XVIII — The Highest Resource
  28. 28Book the Third — The Child in the Shadow
  29. 29Chapter II — The Effect of Snow
  30. 30Chapter III — A Burden Makes a Rough Road Rougher
  31. 31Chapter IV — Another Form of Desert
  32. 32Chapter V — Misanthropy Plays Its Pranks
  33. 33Chapter VI — The Awaking
  34. 34Part II — Book the First — The Everlasting Presence of the Past: Ma…
  35. 35Chapter II — I. Lord David Dirry-Moir
  36. 36Chapter III — The Duchess Josiana
  37. 37Chapter IV — The Leader of Fashion
  38. 38Chapter V — Queen Anne
  39. 39Chapter VI — Barkilphedro
  40. 40Chapter VII — Barkilphedro Gnaws His Way
  41. 41Chapter VIII — Inferi
  42. 42Chapter IX — Hate Is as Strong as Love
  43. 43Chapter X — The Flame Which Would Be Seen If Man Were Transparent
  44. 44Chapter XI — Barkilphedro in Ambuscade
  45. 45Chapter XII — Scotland, Ireland, and England
  46. 46Book the Second — Gwynplaine and Dea
  47. 47Chapter II — Dea
  48. 48Chapter III — “Oculos Non Habet, et Videt”
  49. 49Chapter IV — Well-Matched Lovers
  50. 50Chapter V — The Blue Sky Through the Black Cloud
  51. 51Chapter VI — Ursus as Tutor, and Ursus as Guardian
  52. 52Chapter VII — Blindness Gives Lessons in Clairvoyance
  53. 53Chapter VIII — Not Only Happiness, but Prosperity
  54. 54Chapter IX — Absurdities Which Folks Without Taste Call Poetry
  55. 55Chapter X — An Outsider’s View of Men and Things
  56. 56Chapter XI — Gwynplaine Thinks Justice, and Ursus Talks Truth
  57. 57Chapter XII — Ursus the Poet Drags on Ursus the Philosopher
  58. 58Book the Third — The Beginning of the Fissure
  59. 59Chapter II — Open-Air Eloquence
  60. 60Chapter III — Where the Passer-by Reappears
  61. 61Chapter IV — Contraries Fraternize in Hate
  62. 62Chapter V — The Wapentake
  63. 63Chapter VI — The Mouse Examined by the Cats
  64. 64Chapter VII — Why Should a Gold Piece Lower Itself by Mixing With a…
  65. 65Chapter VIII — Symptoms of Poisoning
  66. 66Chapter IX — Abyssus Abyssum Vocat
  67. 67Book the Fourth — The Cell of Torture
  68. 68Chapter II — From Gay to Grave
  69. 69Chapter III — Lex, Rex, Fex
  70. 70Chapter IV — Ursus Spies the Police
  71. 71Chapter V — A Fearful Place
  72. 72Chapter VI — The Kind of Magistracy Under the Wigs of Former Days
  73. 73Chapter VII — Shuddering
  74. 74Chapter VIII — Lamentation
  75. 75Book the Fifth — The Sea and Fate Are Moved by the Same Breath
  76. 76Chapter II — The Waif Knows Its Own Course
  77. 77Chapter III — An Awakening
  78. 78Chapter IV — Fascination
  79. 79Chapter V — We Think We Remember; We Forget
  80. 80Book the Sixth — Ursus Under Different Aspects
  81. 81Chapter II — What He Did
  82. 82Chapter III — Complications
  83. 83Chapter IV — Moenibus Surdis Campana Muta
  84. 84Chapter V — State Policy Deals With Little Matters as Well as With…
  85. 85Book the Seventh — The Titaness
  86. 86Chapter II — The Resemblance of a Palace to a Wood
  87. 87Chapter III — Eve
  88. 88Chapter IV — Satan
  89. 89Chapter V — They Recognize, but Do Not Know, Each Other
  90. 90Book the Eighth — The Capitol and Things Around It
  91. 91Chapter II — Impartiality
  92. 92Chapter III — The Old Hall
  93. 93Chapter IV — The Old Chamber
  94. 94Chapter V — Aristocratic Gossip
  95. 95Chapter VI — The High and the Low
  96. 96Chapter VII — Storms of Men Are Worse Than Storms of Oceans
  97. 97Chapter VIII — He Would Be a Good Brother, Were He Not a Good Son
  98. 98Book the Ninth — In Ruins
  99. 99Chapter II — The Dregs
  100. 100Conclusion — The Night and the Sea
  101. 101Chapter II — Barkilphedro, Having Aimed at the Eagle, Brings Down t…
  102. 102Chapter III — Paradise Regained Below
  103. 103Chapter IV — Nay; on High!

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