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Stories of Crime was composed of Last Days of a Condemned Man, plus Claude Gueux, and several other true-crime narratives. Except for Last Days and Claude Gueux, all the rest were gathered from the larger collection usually entitled, Things Seen, which was a running journal Hugo kept of events he witnessed. (The titles vary between sources.)

The original French editions of these journals (Choses Vues) were published after Hugo's death. Only a selection of them have been translated into English. The translations below come either from the Black's Readers Service publication mentioned above, or a 1907 selection from Things Seen by the Nottingham Society.

Where a work appeared in both collections, I have indicated the title in each. I have not included Last Days in this grouping since, unlike the rest, it is fiction.

CONTENTS

Things Seen	Stories of Crime
	Claude Gueux
1838: Talleyrand
1839: Diary of a Passer-By During the Riot of the Twelfth of May 1840: Funeral of Napoleon: Notes Taken on the Spot
1841: Origin of Fantine	Woman of the Streets
1842: Fieschi	Fieschi, the Exploder
1842: The Death of the Duke of Orleans
1842: A Dream
1843: Royer-Collard 1844: King Louis-Philippe 1844: Saint Cloud 1845: Villemain
1846: Attempt of Lecomte	Lecomte the Assassin
1846: Attempt of Joseph Henri	Henri, the Regicide
1846: Count Mortier	Mortier, the Madman
1846: Visit to the Conciergerie 1846: Soirèe at M. Guizot's 1847: Lord Normandy 1847: Dinner at M. de Salvandy's 1847: Funeral of Mlle Mars 1847: Fete at the Duke of Montpensier's 1847: The Teste and Cubière's Trial 1847: The Duke of Praslin 1847: Béranger 1847: The Death of Mme. Adélaide
1847: The Condemned Convicts' Prison	The Overnight Criminal
1848: The Flight of Louis-Philippe 1848: The Fifteenth of May 1848: The National Assembly 1849: The Chancellor Pasquier 1849: Mlle Georges 1850: At the Académie 1850: The Death of Balzac 1853: Hubert, the Spy 1858: Tapner 1871: Thiers and Rochefort
1875:A Retrospect