The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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

by Victor Hugo

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Originally published as «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 1831708 pages

848

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

Classification

Dewey (DDC): 848843843.78[Fic]
Library of Congress (LCC): PQ2288.A31 1995bPZ0003.H875 No 8PQ2288.A1 2004PQ2288 A1 1836

Subjects

Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)Disfigured personsEnglish fictionFictionFiction, historicalFiction, historical, generalFiction, romance, generalFranceFrance -- Histoire -- 1461-1483 (Louis XI) -- Romans, nouvelles, etcFrance -- History -- Louis XI, 1461-1483 -- FictionFrance, fictionFrance, history, fiction

This edition

ISBN 1561386022English

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First published1831

Adaptation adaptation1832

Adaptation adaptation1850

Film adaptation1905

Film adaptation1911

Film adaptation1917

Film adaptation1922

Film adaptation1923

Film adaptation1939