The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Name: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Author: Victor Hugo
ISBN: 1561386022

by Victor Hugo

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Originally Notre-dame de Paris. · French

The setting of this extraordinary historical novel is medieval Paris: a city of vividly intermingled beauty and grotesquerie, surging with violent life under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame. Against this background, Victor Hugo unfolds the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by the specter of his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony, it is a w...

First published 1831 708 pages

Category: Literature
Priority: Must-Read
Author works: 5
Editions known: 265

Classification

DDC 848 LCC PQ-2288.00000000.A31 1995b Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)Disfigured personsEnglish fictionFictionFiction, historicalFiction, historical, generalFiction, romance, generalFrance

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