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This extraordinary historical novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by the specter of his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony, it is a work that gives full play to Victor Hugo's brilliant historical imagination and his remarkable powers of description.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Signet/New American Library, 1965
ISBN 10: 0451504607
ISBN 13: 9780451504609
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Seller: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. New York. 1965. Signet/New American Library. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451504607. Complete and unabridged. Translated from the French by Walter J. Cobb. Afterword by Andre Maurois. 512 pages. paperback. CQ460. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback. DESCRIPTION - 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. 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. 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. 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. Immensely popular from its original publication to the present day, The Hunchback of Notre - Dame stands as an unsurpassed and enduring literary triumph. As Andre Maurois writes: 'Hugo's characters were to live in the minds of men of all countries and all races. They are unforgettable because they possess the elemental grandeur of myths and epics.' inventory #34538. Seller Inventory # z34538
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