Victor Hugo

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A critic in The Galaxy who admired Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (1869) and spoke with him about it called Hugo "a dreamer, a radical, a splendid, salient figure." It is one of his bitterest indictments of the cruelty and selfishness of society. Victor-Marie Hugo is known abroad for his novels, especially Les Miserables …