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The Man Who Laughs

A Romance of English History

By Victor Hugo

CONTENTS.

Preliminary Chapter.—Ursus

Another Preliminary Chapter.—The Comprachicos

PART I.

BOOK THE FIRST.—NIGHT NOT SO BLACK AS MAN.

I.—Portland Bill

II.—Left Alone

III.—Alone

IV.—Questions

V.—The Tree of Human Invention

VI.—Struggle between Death and Night

VII.—The North Point of Portland

BOOK THE SECOND.—THE HOOKER AT SEA.

I.—Superhuman Laws

II.—Our First Rough Sketches Filled in

III.—Troubled Men on the Troubled Sea

IV.—A Cloud Different from the Others enters on the Scene

V.—Hardquanonne

VI.—They Think that Help is at Hand

VII.—Superhuman Horrors

VIII.—Nix et Nox

IX.—The Charge Confided to a Raging Sea

X.—The Colossal Savage, the Storm

XI.—The Caskets

XII.—Face to Face with the Rock

XIII.—Face to Face with Night

XIV.—Ortach

XV.—Portentosum Mare

XVI.—The Problem Suddenly Works in Silence

XVII.—The Last Resource

XVIII.—The Highest Resource

BOOK THE THIRD.—THE CHILD IN THE SHADOW.

I.—Chesil

II.—The Effect of Snow

III.—A Burden Makes a Rough Road Rougher

IV.—Another Form of Desert

V.—Misanthropy Plays Its Pranks

VI.—The Awaking

PART II.

BOOK THE FIRST.—THE EVERLASTING PRESENCE OF THE PAST. MAN REFLECTS MAN.

I.—Lord Clancharlie

II.—Lord David Dirry-Moir

III.—The Duchess Josiana

IV.—The Leader of Fashion

V.—Queen Anne

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