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[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] really, ''really'' liked this book, calling it Hugo's "masterpiece". This may have to do with the fact that Dostoyevsky had gone through [http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/12/22/1849-not-fyodor-dostoyevsky/ the very same experience as the man in the book.]
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* [[A Fate Worse Than Death]]: The hero flips back and forth between whether or not hard labor for life in the [[wikipedia:Bagne of Toulon|bagne of Toulon]] is worse than execution.
* [[Age-Appropriate Angst]]: The main character is consistently acknowledged by himself and others to be a young man.
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