Volume IV, Book 7
Slang' - Hugo's philological-philosophical essay on argot as 'the language of the dark.Read in Books4Free →
Hugo's Digression on Argot
From Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Hugo's lengthy and once-controversial essay defending the study of criminal slang as the language of the wretched.
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