The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Bullseye Step into Classics) - Softcover

Hugo, Victor; Cerasini, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679874291 ISBN 13: 9780679874294

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1995

Synopsis

The classic story, set in medieval Paris, of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral who falls in love with Esmaralda, the beautiful gypsy girl, is retold in an easy-to-read short-chapter, large-print format for younger readers. Simultaneous.

About this title

About the Author:

Victor-Marie Hugo was born in 1802 at Besanon, where his father, an officer under Napoleon, was stationed. In his first decade the family moved from post to post: Corsica, Naples, Madrid. After his parents separated in 1812, Hugo lived in Paris with his mother and brothers. At twenty he married Adele Foucher and published his first poetry collection. Hugo was elected to the Academie Francaise in 1841. The accidental death two years later of his eldest daughter and her husband devastated him and marked the end of his first literary period. By then politics had become central to his life. Though he was a Royalist in his youth, his views became increasingly liberal after the July revolution of 1830: Freedom in art, freedom in society, there is the double goal. He initially supported the political ascent of Louis Napoleon, but turned savagely against him after being denied a role in government following the coup de'tat of 1851. Hugo went into exile in Brussels and Jersey, launching fierce literary attacks on the Second Empire. After the fall of the Second Empire in 1870, Hugo returned to France and was reelected to the National Assembly, and then to the Senate. He had become a legendary figure and national icon.
From the Paperback edition.

Synopsis:

A retelling of the tale, set in medieval Paris, of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmaralda from being unjustly executed.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679874291
• ISBN 13: 9780679874294
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108