The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
$55.18
- Hardcover
504 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2012
Summary
Enter the world of 15th Century Paris in one of the greatest historical novels of all time - vivid, passionate and magnificent.
Hugo’s grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men: Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and Captain Phoebus. Falsely accused of trying to murder Phoebus, who attempts to rape her, Esmeralda is sentenced to death and rescued from the gallows by Quasimodo wh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593456 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593451 |
| Author: | Victor Hugo |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 504 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2012 |
| Weight: | 612g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 134mm x 210mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and is considered one of the most important French Romantic writers. Among his best-known works are The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Miserables (1862).
Jean-Marc Hovasse is Director of Research at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Paris. One of France’s leading specialists in 19th-century French literature, he is writing a monumental biography of Victor Hugo, the first two volumes of which were published in 2001 and 2008.
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