The hunchback of Notre-Dame / Victor Hugo.
By: Hugo, Victor
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BookPlace of publication: LondonPublisher: Harper PressDate of publication: 2011Description: viii, 672 pages : 18 cm.ISBN: 9780007902132.Subject(s): Quasimodo (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Notre-Dame de Paris (Cathedral) -- Fiction | People with disabilities -- Fiction | French literature | -- FictionDDC classification: 843.7 H8749 2011 Summary: Set in medieval Paris against the backdrop of the brooding Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Hugo's take on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast tells of the hunchbacked grotesque bell-ringer Quasimodo. Rejected by Parisian society because of his appearance, Quasimodo resides in Notre-Dame harbouring a love for the only woman that pities him, a gypsy named Esmeralda. However, a sinister archdeacon also covets Esmeralda and when his advances are spurned, he seeks to destroy her.
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Set in medieval Paris against the backdrop of the brooding Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Hugo's take on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast tells of the hunchbacked grotesque bell-ringer Quasimodo. Rejected by Parisian society because of his appearance, Quasimodo resides in Notre-Dame harbouring a love for the only woman that pities him, a gypsy named Esmeralda. However, a sinister archdeacon also covets Esmeralda and when his advances are spurned, he seeks to destroy her.
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