Notre-Dame de Paris - (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Victor Hugo (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

One of the world's most iconic novels--a timeless story of love in the face of difference and prejudice, known also as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame--in a sparkling new translation commemorating the restoration of Paris's Notre-Dame Cathedral

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper

In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell ringer. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmeralda, a beautiful Roma street dancer to whom he becomes completely devoted. Esmeralda, however, has also attracted the attention of the sinister archdeacon Claude Frollo, and when she rejects his lecherous approaches, Frollo hatches a plot to destroy her that only Quasimodo can prevent. Victor Hugo's masterpiece brings to life the medieval Paris he loved, and mourns its passing, in one of the greatest historical romances of the nineteenth century.

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About the Author

Victor Hugo (1802-1885), novelist, poet, playwright, and politician, is widely considered one of greatest French Romantic writers. He is best known for two of today's most popular world classics: Les Misérables (1862) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831). Over a writing career spanning sixty years, he wrote dozens of acclaimed works, including The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829), Les Contemplations (1856), The Toilers of the Sea (1866), and The Man Who Laughs (1869).

Julie Rose (translator) is an internationally acclaimed translator of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, for which she was a finalist for the Florence Gould French-American Foundation Translation Prize, as well as The Knight of Maison Rouge by Alexandre Dumas and Phedre by Racine. She is a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters and a recipient of the New South Wales Premier's Translation Prize and the PEN medallion for translation.