As AndrE Maurois writes: 'Hugo's characters were to live in the minds of men of all countries and all races. Immensely popular from its original publication to the present day, The Hunchback of Notre - Dame stands as an unsurpassed and enduring literary triumph. Whether depicting the frenzy of a brutish mob or the agony of a solitary soul, whether capturing the drunken blaze of sunlight or dungeon darkness, Victor Hugo's art never fails in its quest for the immediacy of felt experience. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony, it is a work which gives full play to the author's brilliant historical imagination, his remarkable powers of description. Against this background Victor Hugo unfolds the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the monstrous hunch back Esmera Ida, the gypsy dancer and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by the specter of his own damnation. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The setting of this extraordinary historical novel is medieval Paris: a city of vividly intermingled beauty and grotesquerie, surging with violent life under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre - Dame. Newly Translated From The French By Walter J.
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