Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1627939520
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (279 download)
Book Synopsis Notre-Dame of Paris by : Victor Hugo
Download or read book Notre-Dame of Paris written by Victor Hugo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More commonly known as "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame", Victor Hugo's Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love, "Notre-Dame de Paris", is translated with an introduction by John Sturrock in "Penguin Classics". In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmerelda, a beautiful gypsy dancer to whom he becomes completely devoted. Esmerelda, however, has also attracted the attention of the sinister archdeacon Claude Frollo, and when she rejects his lecherous approaches, Frollo hatches a plot to destroy her, that only Quasimodo can prevent. Victor Hugo's sensational, evocative novel brings life to the medieval Paris he loved, and mourns its passing in one of the greatest historical romances of the nineteenth century. John Sturrock's clear, contemporary translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing it as a passionate novel of ideas, written in defence of Gothic architecture and of a burgeoning democracy, and demonstrating that an ugly exterior can conceal moral beauty.