The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Dark passions and unrequited love are featured in Victor Hugo's romantic book. Victor Hugo's potent novel ""imagination caprice and fancy"" which is set in 1482 is both a captivating reproduction of the medieval world at the start of the modern era and a meditation on love fate architecture and politics. Hugo's brilliant retelling of the story of Beauty and the Beast introduces a cast of unforgettable characters including Clopin Trouillefou the ruler of the beggars and Louis XI King of France as well as the title character Quasimodo the hunchback who is hopelessly in love with the gypsy girl Esmeralda. The Notre Dame Cathedral hangs over the entire book both literally and figuratively.