Essential Victor Hugo Book

	A chronology of Victor Hugo
	The essential Victor Hugo
	Before the exile I : 1824-1843
	The song of the circus	3
	To a traveller	7
	Zara bathing	9
	Preface from Cromwell	16
	Joanny	53
	from Journal of the ideas and opinions of a revolutionary of 1830	54
	Notre-Dame	58
	An impartial peep at the magistrates of old	65
	Heard on the mountain	77
	'Sometimes, beneath the clouds' deceptive twists ...'	81
	A ball at the Hotel de Ville	83
	'O that I could fill your deep reverie ...'	85
	'The rest of them drift any way at all ...'	87
	A popular man	89
	'Indian caverns! tombs! monumental arrays ...'	91
	The shadow	95
	Therese's party	97
	For dust thou art	101
	Written on the plinth of an ancient bas-relief	103
	'The child saw grandma busy spinning ...'	105
	'Life, dear sir, is a comedy ...'	105
	Near Avranches	107
	Talleyrand	110
	Bayonne	111
	Before the exile II : 1843-1851
	King Louis-Philippe	117
	Villemain	117
	A righteous man	123
	The fall	131
	The living pictures	176
	The princes	177
	Uttered in the shadows	181
	While looking at the heavens one evening	181
	'At first, oh! I was like a maniac ...'	187
	'While mariners, who estimate and doubt ... '	187
	Veni, Vidi, Vixi	189
	'Tomorrow, when the field grow light ...'	191
	At the academie francaise	192
	The death of Balzac	196
	Balzac's funeral	200
	Piux IX and Louis Bonaparte	203
	Proposed grant to Monsieur Bonaparte	204
	Postscript from The Whole Lyre	209
	During the exile : 1851-1870
	Paris sleeps; the doorbell rings	211
	How dark the crime was	212
	Biography	214
	5 April 1852	216
	The littleness of the master	219
	Writing to France	222
	Charles II	223
	'When, France, you are mere prostrate slaves ...'	225
	'Night - dark night, deep, and full of drowsy things ...'	227
	Apotheosis	227
	The man has laughed	231
	The joint commissions	233
	The black hunter	233
	'I was in Brussels; it was June ...'	237
	The last word	239
	The birds	243
	Unity	247
	Wayside pause	249
	'I was reading. reading what? the timeless poem ...'	253
	The beggar	257
	Lowing of oxen	257
	Apparition	259
	Cerigo	261
	'The poet's verse-form used to pillage April's basket ... '	265
	The weather clears	267
	'The soul dives in the chasm ...'	269
	Storm	271
	from The threshold of the abyss	273
	from The eagle	285
	'What do you think of death, you vain philosopher? ...'	291
	'The depths of the I am are swathed in cloud ...'	293
	The consecration of woman	295
	Boaz asleep	307
	Christ's first encounters with the tomb	313
	Connubial bliss	319
	'Nature? she's amorous everywhere ...'	321
	From woman to heaven	323
	An alcove in the sunrise	323
	During all illness	325
	Waterloo	330
	Grandeur among the middle classes	379
	The house in the Rue Plumet	387
	Leviathan's intestine	392
	A turbulent life and a tranquil conscience	410
	The old old story of Utopia	411
	The story of Utopia, continued	413
	A quirk of Lethierry's character	415
	A contradiction	418
	Emily de Putron	419
	The death of Madame Victor Hugo	421
	After the exile I : 1870-1878
	The return to France	425
	A prayer	428
	The vanished city	431
	Orpheus	435
	'I knew Firdausi in Mysore, long since ...'	437
	After the Caudine Forks	437
	For Georges	439
	The immaculate conception revisited	443
	Jeanne asleep, iv	445
	Letter	447
	Waking impressions	451
	Hail, goddess, hail from one about to die	455
	'Dante wrote two lines ...'	455
	The Rue Tiquetonne	456
	The emperor of Brazil	458
	The Hernani dinner	459
	After the exile II : 1878-1885
	'Suddenly the door opened ...'	465
	Last wishes	465
	Last line	465
App	The structure of the Contemplations, The legend of the ages, and God	466