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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Paperback Signet Classics English
By (author) Victor Hugo , Translated by Walter J. Cobb , Afterword by Graham Robb , Introduction by Bradley Stephens


The complete and unabridged translation of Victor Hugos classic novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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.

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 authors brilliant imagination and his remarkable powers of description.

Translated By Walter J. Cobb
With an Introduction by Bradley Stephens
And an Afterword by Graham Robb


Product details

Format Paperback | 528 pages
Dimensions 106 x 171 x 28mm | 249g
Publication date 02 Mar 2010
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint Signet
Publication City/Country New York, United States
Language English
ISBN10 0451531515
ISBN13 9780451531513
Bestsellers rank 60,758