Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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The setting of this extraordinary historical novel

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By Victor Hugo (au); Walter J. Cobb (tr); Graham Robb (ad)
Year: 2001
Pages: 523
Binding Paperback
ISBN 1-59609-171-1

Product Code: 1422359727

Description

The setting of this extraordinary historical novel is medieval Paris, a city that intermingled the beautiful & the grotesque, that surged with violence beneath the twin towers of its supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame. Against this backdrop, Hugo unfolds the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; & Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by the specter of his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony, this work gives full play to Hugo’s brilliant imagining of history & his remarkable powers of description. Includes the complete, unabridged text of the novel. Also, a DVD of: The original silent film starring Lon Chaney, Sr.; & “Classics on Film,” written & hosted by film journalist Susannah Gora.

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