Index:Man Who Laughs (Estes and Lauriat 1869) v1.djvu

Title	The Man Who Laughs
Author	Victor Hugo
Translator	Anonymous
Illustrator	Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse and others
Year	1869
Publisher	Estes and Lauriat
Location	Boston
Source	djvu
Progress	Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated
Transclusion	Fully transcluded
Volumes	Vol. I, Vol. II

Pages (key to Page Status)

CONTENTS.

Vol. I.

PART I.—THE SEA AND THE NIGHT.
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I.—TWO PRELIMINARY CHAPTERS.
		Page
I.	Ursus	1
II.	The Comprachicos	24
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BOOK I.—Night not so black as Man.
Chapter
I.	Portland Bill	40
II.	Left Alone	47
III.	Alone	51
IV.	Questions	57
V.	The Tree of Human Invention	60
VI.	Struggle between Death and Night	66
VII.	The North Point of Portland	73
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BOOK II.—The Hooker at Sea.
I.	Superhuman Laws	78
II.	Our first Rough Sketches filled in	82
III.	Troubled Men on the Troubled Sea	88
IV.	A Cloud different from the Others enters on the Scene	93
V.	Hardquanonne	103
VI.	They think that Help is at Hand	106
VII.	Superhuman Horrors	108
VIII.	Nix et Nox	112
IX.	The Charge confided to a Raging Sea	116
X.	The Colossal Savage, the Storm	118
XI.	The Caskets	123
XII.	Face to Face with the Rock	126
XIII.	Face to Face with Night	130
XIV.	Ortach	132
XV.	Portentosum Mare	134
XVI.	The Problem suddenly works in Silence	140
XVII.	The Last Resource	143
XVIII.	The Highest Resource	147
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BOOK III.—The Child in the Shadow.
I.	Chesil	155
II.	The Effect of Snow	161
III.	A Burden makes a Rough Road rougher	166
IV.	Another Kind of Desert	171
V.	Misanthropy Plays its Pranks	176
VI.	The Awaking	192

PART II.—BY ORDER OF THE KING.
⁠
BOOK I.—The Everlasting Presence of the Past—Man reflects Man.
I.	Lord Clancharlie	196
II.	Lord David Dirry-Moir	210
III.	The Duchess Josiana	218
IV.	The Leader of Fashion	229
V.	Queen Anne	238
VI.	Barkilphedro	247
VII.	Barkilphedro gnaws his Way	254
VIII.	Inferi	260
IX.	Hate is as Strong as Love	263
X.	The Flame which would be seen if Man were transparent	271
XI.	Barkilphedro in Ambuscade	280
XII.	Scotland, Ireland, and England	285
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BOOK II.—Gwynplaine and Dea.
I.	Wherein we see the Face of him of whom we have hitherto seen only the acts	295
II.	Dea	301
III.	"Oculos non habet, et videt"	304
IV.	Well-matched Lovers	307
V.	The Blue Sky through the Black Cloud	311
VI.	Ursus as Tutor, and Ursus as Guardian	315
VII.	Blindness gives Lessons in Clairvoyance	320
VIII.	Not only Happiness, but Prosperity	324
IX.	Absurdities which Folks without Taste call Poetry	330
X.	An Outsider's View of Men and Things	337
XI.	Gwynplaine thinks Justice, and Ursus speaks Truth	343
XII.	Ursus the Poet drags on Ursus the Philosopher	353

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