Books with title The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: A Novel

This unique edition includes hand-crafted annotations:- Historical background‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ was first published in in 1831.Victor Hugo was born in 1802 and died in 1885. He left a legacy of outstanding novels that continue to captivate minds and hearts of the audience even after more than hundred fifty years after its first publication. Vivid images and gripping plot engages readers more than anything. Especially ‘The Hunchback of Notre-Dame’ is a must read for all.‘The Hunchback of Notre-Dame’ is a moving story of a hunchback named Quasimodo, a bell-ringer living in the Notre Dame cathedral church in Paris, and a beautiful gipsy street dancer Esmeralda. It is a very engaging story that keeps the reader craving for more.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (original French title, Notre-Dame de Paris) is set in 1482 in Paris, in and around the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. It tells the story of a poor Gypsy girl (La Esmeralda) and a misshapen bell-ringer (Quasimodo), one of the most colorful characters in literature, who falls in love with her. They are both victimized by a corrupt priest (Claude Frollo) and begin an adventure filled with great peril and great heroism. The book was enormously popular in France and became so in translations in other countries. Its popularity has continued to this day.

Excerpt from The Hunchback of Notre-DameAfter the death of his mother in 1821, he took a small house in a sequestered quarter, but refused to accept money from his father, and laboured day and night, that he might be the sooner in a condition to claim the hand of his mis tress, to whom he was united in the following year. His juvenile friend, Delon, was implicated in the conspiracy Of Saumur. Hugo wrote to his mother, Offering the fugitive an asylum in his house. This letter fell into the hands of the police it was read by Louis XVIII. Himself, and the first vacant pension was conferred on the writer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris) is a French Romantic/Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The original French title refers to Notre Dame Cathedral, on which the story is centered. English translator Frederic Shoberl named the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1833 because at the time, Gothic novels were more popular than Romance novels in England. The story is set in Paris, France in the Late Middle Ages, during the reign of Louis XI.BONUS :• The Hunchback of Notre Dame Audiobook.• Biography of Victor Hugo.