Notre-Dame de Paris (The ^AWorld's Classics) - Softcover

Hugo, Victor; Krailsheimer, Alban

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9780192829115: Notre-Dame de Paris (The ^AWorld's Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0192829114 ISBN 13: 9780192829115

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

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At the center of Hugo's classic novel are three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion. Behind the central figures moves a pageant of picturesque characters, including the underworld of beggars and petty criminals whose assault on the cathedral is one of the most spectacular set-pieces of Romantic literature.
Alban Kraisheimer's new translation offers a fresh approach to this monumental work by France's most celebrated Romantic authors.

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About the Author:

He has also translated Balzac's Pere Goriot and Flaubert's Three Tales for the World's Classics.

Review:

"Alban Krailsheimer's fluent new translation more than does justice to a great romantic classic."

--Max Davidson, Weekend Telegraph 26/11/1993

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