Les Miserables - Victor Hugo, Literature
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Les Miserables
By Victor Hugo
Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood
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VOLUME I.
FANTINE.
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PR E FAC E
So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom,
decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artiicially
creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding
the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the
three great problems of the century— the degradation of
man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through
hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light— are
unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part
of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider sig-
niicance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth,
books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of
use.
HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862.
FANTINE
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Les Miserables
BOOK FIRST—A JUST MAN
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