They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?
- Victor Hugo
other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.
- Victor Hugo
CHAPTER 2: THE GRACE-SHAPED LIFE 1. Jim Reimann, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables (Nashville: Word Publishing, 2001), 16. 2. Ibid., 29—31.