The Hunchback of Notre Dame

<p><strong>The complete and unabridged translation of Victor Hugo's classic novel, <em>The Hunchback of Notre Dame</em>.</strong><br /><br />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> <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.<br /><br /><strong>Translated By Walter J. Cobb</strong><br /><strong> With an Introduction by Bradley Stephens </strong><br /><strong>And an Afterword by Graham Robb </strong></p>