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An Unmissable Literary Classic by Victor Hugo

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by French author Victor Hugo is a book of literary fiction first published in France in 1831. This edition features the English translation by Isabel F. Hapgood, published in 1888.

A celebrated gothic romantic classic filled with thrilling adventure and dark mystery.

Excerpt

'Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago to-day, the Parisians awoke to the sound of all the bells in the triple circuit of the city, the university, and the town ringing a full peal.

The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory. There was nothing notable in the event which thus set the bells and the bourgeois of Paris in a ferment from early morning. It was neither an assault by the Picards nor the Burgundians, nor a hunt led along in procession, nor a revolt of scholars in the town of Laas, nor an entry of "our much dread lord, monsieur the king," nor even a pretty hanging of male and female thieves by the courts of Paris. Neither was it the arrival, so frequent in the fifteenth century, of some plumed and bedizened embassy. It was barely two days since the last cavalcade of that nature, that of the Flemish ambassadors charged with concluding the marriage between the dauphin and Marguerite of Flanders, had made its entry into Paris, to the great annoyance of M. le Cardinal de Bourbon, who, for the sake of pleasing the king, had been obliged to assume an amiable mien towards this whole rustic rabble of Flemish burgomasters, and to regale them at his Hôtel de Bourbon, with a very "pretty morality, allegorical satire, and farce," while a driving rain drenched the magnificent tapestries at his door.'

Synopsis

Set in Paris during the 15th century, the story centres on Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, and his love for the beautiful, kind hearted gypsy dancer Esmeralda, who he devotes himself to protecting. Victor Hugo's moving, absorbing novel medieval Paris vibrantly to life. A thrilling literary classic, and an unmissable read.

Title Details

? Original 1888 text in English

? Literary fiction

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