The Hunchback of Notre-Dame - Softcover

Hugo, Victor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 151910040X ISBN 13: 9781519100405

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

EXCEPTIONAL UNABRIDGED EDITION

Read two of the greatest French novels of all time in a beautifully presented edition.

Paris in the late Middle Ages, during the reign of Louis XI (1461-1483).
A young and beautiful gypsy named Esmeralda dances on the steps of Notre-Dame cathedral. Her beauty captures the hearts of many men including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, but especially Quasimodo the hunchback and his adoptive father, Frollo, archdeacon of Notre-Dame. Frollo is torn between his obsessive lust and the rules of the church...

Victor Hugo (1802-1885), was a poet, playwright and romantic novelist considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. He was also a politician and a committed intellectual who played a major role in the history of the nineteenth century.

First published in 1832, Notre-Dame de Paris (French edition name) immediately met a great popular success.

This brilliant novel is a must-read of classic literature and will delight readers of all ages.

About this title

About the Author

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a novelist, poet and dramatist, and one of the most important writers of the French Romantic movement. Jan Needle has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and is the author of several children's books, including My Mate Shofiq and Wild Wood. David Hughes' artwork has appeared in Punch, The Observer and The New Yorker. He received high acclaim for Strat and Chatto by Jan Mark, winner of the Mother Goose Award in 1990, and his award-winning illustrated version of Shakespeare's Othello.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 151910040X
• ISBN 13: 9781519100405
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 458
• Editor: Editions Atlantic