The Hunchback of Notre-Dame -- Victor Hugo
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<b>The complete and unabridged translation of Victor Hugo's classic novel, <i>The Hunchback of Notre Dame</i>.</b> <p/>The setting of this extraordinary historical novel is medieval Paris: a city of vividly intermingled beauty and ugliness, surging with violent life under the two towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre Dame. <p/> 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 author's brilliant imagination and his remarkable powers of description. <p/><b>Translated By Walter J. Cobb</b><br><b> With an Introduction by Bradley Stephens </b><br><b>And an Afterword by Graham Robb </b><br><br><b>Author:</b> Victor Hugo<br><b>Publisher:</b> Signet Book<br><b>Published:</b> 03/02/2010<br><b>Pages:</b> 510<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.55lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 6.70h x 4.10w x 1.40d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780451531513<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Born in 1802, the son of a high officer in Napoleon's army, <b>Victor Hugo</b> spent his childhood against a background of military life in Elba, Corsica, Naples, and Madrid. After the Napoleonic defeat, the Hugo family settled in straitened circumstances in Paris, where, at the age of fifteen, Victor Hugo commenced his literary
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