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Mar 02, 2010 | ISBN 9780451531513 Buy
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Mar 02, 2010 | ISBN 9780451531513
The complete and unabridged translation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.The setting of this extraordinary historical novel is medieval Paris: a city of vividly intermingled beauty and ugliness, surging with violent life under the two 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 work that gives full play to the author’s brilliant imagination and his remarkable powers of description.Translated By Walter J. Cobb With an Introduction by Bradley Stephens And an Afterword by Graham Robb
Victor Hugo (1802–1885), novelist, poet, playwright, and French national icon, is best known for two of today’s most popular world classics: Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, as well as other works, including The Toilers of the Sea and The Man Who Laughs. Hugo was… More about Victor Hugo
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