The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
	List Price:   $5.95 Unit Price:   $4.76 You Save:   $1.19 (20%) ISBN-10:   0451527887 ISBN-13:   9780451527882 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Inc Series:   Signet Classics Ser. Category:   Classics, Young Adults Pub. Date:   April 2001 Pages:   512 Format:   Mass Market
Subjects
CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR) PARIS (FRANCE)_FICTION FICTION_HISTORICAL
Description/Notes
The setting of this extraordinary historical novel is medieval Paris: a city of vividly intermingled beauty and grotesquerie, surging with violent life under the twin 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 authorrsquo;s brilliant historical imagination and his remarkable powers of description. Whether depicting the frenzy of a brutish mob or the agony of a solitary soul, whether capturing a blaze of sunlight or dungeon darkness, Victor Hugorsquo;s art never fails in its quest for the immediacy of felt experience. The classic historical novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmerelda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by the specter of his own damnation.