《被伤害与侮辱的人们》描写了资产阶级冒险家瓦尔科夫斯基对"小人物"尤其是两个弱女子的迫害和一手造成的两个家庭悲剧。小说对弱者给予深深的同情，同时对资产阶级自私、虚伪、贪婪、卑鄙的本性进行了无情的揭露和鞭笞。(People Who Have Been Hurt and Insulted describes the bourgeois adventurer Varcoe persecuted poor people especially two weak woman and created two families' tragedy. The novel gives deep sympathy for the weak, and exposes and merciless lashes the bourgeois selfishness, hypocrisy, greed, despicable nature.)