For many people in the English-speaking world, Victor Hugo's name immediately brings up his novels The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Mis rables. Their enduring success has overshadowed his many other achievements: he was a playwright, poet, politician and philosopher. And above all, he was a constant campaigner for social justice, for prison reform, abolition of the death penalty and the rights of women. He also campaigned against the excessive...
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