Hunchback of Notre-Dame

<b>The complete and unabridged translation of Victor Hugo's classic novel <i>The Hunchback of Notre Dame</i>.</b> <p/>The setting of this extraordinary historical novel is medieval Paris: a city of vividly intermingled beauty and ugliness surging with violent life under the two towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol the cathedral of Notre Dame. <p/> Against this background Victor Hugo unfolds 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 the author's brilliant imagination and his remarkable powers of description. <p/><b>Translated By Walter J. Cobb</b><br><b> With an Introduction by Bradley Stephens </b><br><b>And an Afterword by Graham Robb </b>