Les Mis Chapter Titles That I Like

I usually hate reading anything in all caps, but this is how the titles appear in the book. It's probably overwhelming that I listed my favorites here all in a row — but these clever little headings were my favorite part of the book.

TO ENTRUST IS SOMETIMES TO ABANDON

COUNTER-STROKE

FULFILMENT OF THE PROMISE TO THE DEPARTED*

A DARK CHASE NEEDS A SILENT HOUND

CEMETERIES TAKE WHAT IS GIVEN THEM

THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE

THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS

THE NOXIOUS POOR

AID FROM BELOW MAY BE AID FROM ABOVE

THE END OF WHICH IS UNLIKE THE BEGINNING

ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS

WHERE ARE THEY GOING?

MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW

THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR

WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS

MIRE, BUT SOUL

THE LAST DROP IN THE CHALICE

THE TWILIGHT WANE

SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN

Chapter Subtitles I Like:

THE NIGHT OF A DAY'S TRAMP

PRUDENCE COMMENDED TO WISDOM

THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE

A TEMPEST IN A BRAIN

A PLACE FOR ARRIVING AT CONVICTIONS

THE SYSTEM OF DENEGATIONS

A FITTING TOMB

SHOWING THAT THE CHAIN OF THE IRON RING MUST NEEDS HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATION TO BE THUS  BROKEN BY ONE BLOW OF THE HAMMER

TWO MISFORTUNES MINGLED MAKE HAPPINESS

A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLING ON THE FLOOR MAKES A NOISE

GROPING FOR ESCAPE

WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WERE THE STREETS LIGHTED WITH GAS

COMMENCEMENT OF AN ENIGMA

THE ENIGMA CONTINUED

THE ENIGMA REDOUBLES

NINETY YEARS OLD AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH

TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR

THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, TO BECOME REVOLUTIONARY

MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE

MARIUS NEEDY

MARIUS POOR

MARIUS A MAN

POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR OF MISERY

COMMENCEMENT OF A GREAT DISTEMPER

ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U ABANDONED TO CONJECTURE

MARIUS, LOOKING FOR A GIRL WITH A HAT, MEETS A MAN WITH A CAP

THE DISTRACTIONS OF DARK CORNERS

THE VICTIMS SHOULD ALWAYS BE ARRESTED FIRST

THE ROSE DISCOVERS THAT SHE IS AN ENGINE OF WAR**

TO SADNESS, SADNESS AND A HALF

WOUND WITHOUT, CURE WITHIN

THE OLD ARE MADE TO GO OUT WHEN CONVENIENT

MARIUS BECOMES SO REAL AS TO GIVE COSETTE HIS ADDRESS

THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE

BLOTTER, BLABBER

SOMETIMES WE GET AGROUND WHEN WE EXPECT TO GET ASHORE

MARIUS SEEMS TO BE DEAD TO ONE WHO IS A GOOD JUDGE

MARIUS, ESCAPING FROM CIVIL WAR, PREPARES FOR DOMESTIC WAR

THE EFFECTS OF DREAM MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS

THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN

THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION MAY CONTAIN

A PEN IS HEAVY TO HIM WHO LIFTED FAUCHELEVENT'S CART

NIGHT BEHIND WHICH IS DAWN

GRASS HIDES AND RAIN BLOTS OUT

*'Fulfilment' is actually spelled with no double L's - maybe a mistake in translation?

**This section starts: "One day Cosette happened to look in the mirror, and she said to herself, "What!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This threw her into strange anxiety. Up to this moment she had never thought of her face.