Author's Preface
Hugo's identification of the three problems: 'the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night.'
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From Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The novel is fundamentally an indictment of social structures that create criminals, prostitutes, and abandoned children.
Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 7
Reflection on the galleys and how society manufactures its own monsters.
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