| | Introduction | p. 7 |
| | Fantine | |
| | An Upright Man | p. 19 |
| | The Outcast | p. 71 |
| | In the Year 1817 | p. 119 |
| | To Trust is Sometimes to Surrender | p. 144 |
| | Degradation | p. 155 |
| | Javert | p. 191 |
| | The Champmathieu Affair | p. 202 |
| | Counter-Stroke | p. 260 |
| | Cosette | |
| | Waterloo | p. 279 |
| | The Ship Orion | p. 325 |
| | Fulfilment of a Promise | p. 338 |
| | The Gorbeau Tenement | p. 385 |
| | Hunt in Darkness | p. 399 |
| | Le Petit-Picpus | p. 425 |
| | Cemeteries Take What They are Given | p. 451 |
| | Marius | |
| | Paris in Microcosm | p. 495 |
| | A Grand Bourgeois | p. 512 |
| | Grandfather and Grandson | p. 522 |
| | The ABC Society | p. 555 |
| | The Virtues of Misfortune | p. 584 |
| | Conjunction of Two Stars | p. 603 |
| | Patron-Minette | p. 619 |
| | The Noxious Poor | p. 627 |
| | The Idyll in the Rue Plumet and the Epic of the Rue Saint-Denis | |
| | A Few Pages of History | p. 705 |
| | Eponine | p. 739 |
| | The House in the Rue Plumet | p. 756 |
| | Help from Below May be Help from above | p. 788 |
| | Of Which the End Does Not Resemble the Beginning | p. 797 |
| | The Boy Gavroche | p. 812 |
| | Enchantment and Despair | p. 844 |
| | Where are They Going? | p. 876 |
| | 5 June 1832 | p. 883 |
| | The Straw in the Wind | p. 904 |
| | Corinth | p. 915 |
| | Marius Enters the Darkness | p. 943 |
| | The Greatness of Despair | p. 953 |
| | In the Rue de L'Homme-Arme | p. 970 |
| | Jean Valjean | |
| | War within Four Walls | p. 987 |
| | The Entrails of the Monster | p. 1061 |
| | Mire, But the Soul | p. 1076 |
| | Javert in Disarray | p. 1104 |
| | Grandson and Grandfather | p. 1110 |
| | The Sleepless Night | p. 1129 |
| | The Bitter Cup | p. 1145 |
| | The Fading Light | p. 1162 |
| | Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn | p. 1173 |
| | The Convent as an Abstract Idea (Part Two, Book VII) | p. 1202 |
| | Argot (Part Four, Book VII) | p. 1214 |