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The hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo ; translated by Isabel F. Hapgood.

ISBN: 9781645171782 (trade paperback)
Physical Description: 608 pages ; 20 cm.
Publisher: San Diego : Canterbury Classics, [2019]
Copyright: &copy;2019

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 (author.). Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928 (translator.). Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 translation of: Notre-Dame de Paris. English. (Added Author).

Summary:

"Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame was written in 1831, at a time when the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was falling into disrepair. This epic novel helped spark a preservationist movement that led to the cathedral being restored to its full glory. Set in 1482, the story tells of how four men-the hunchbacked bell-ringer, Quasimodo; the archdeacon of Notre Dame, Claude Frollo; the dashing soldier Phoebus de Chateaupers; and the poet Pierre Gringoire-vie for the love of Esmeralda, a young Romani woman. As the story unfolds, readers come to realize that the focus of the story is not only on the human characters but on the grand cathedral itself."-- Provided by publisher.