The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Barnard, Marjorie Faith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440049920 ISBN 13: 9781440049927

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2012

Synopsis

English dress, though still young, has distinguished himself in almost every walk of imaginative literature: disputing the prize with the best lyric poets of the day; occupying one of the most eminent positions on the stage; and holding the very first place among the contemporary novelists of France. Of such a writer, the following particulars, brief though they be, will, it is presumed, form an acceptable Introduction to the attempt to transfuse the acknowledged master-piece of his pen into our native language. VICTOR HUGO was born on the 26 th of February, 1802, at Besancon. At the age of five years he accompanied his father, then a colonel in the French army, to I taly, where this officer was afterwards appointed commandant of a province, and was engaged in suppressing the hordes of banditti which then infested that country, and, among others, the daring Fra Diavolo. Two years afterwards, young Hugo, having returned to Paris, received his first instructions from his mother, who belonged to a family of La Vendee, assisted by a royalist who was concealed in her house, and who afterwards suffered death with Mallet, and an ecclesiastic. A mong the first books that he read were the works of Polybius and Tacitus.
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Book Description:

Dramatised recordings of popular children's classic stories, performed by BBC radio actors, with music and sound effects.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440049920
• ISBN 13: 9781440049927
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 488