Hugo, Victor Marie, Conde, 1802-1885
The hunchback of Notre-Dame / Victor Hugo - First edition - 449 pages ; 20 cm. - Wordsworth Classics . - Wordsworth Classics .
Set in 1482, Victor Hugo´s powerful novel of "imagination, caprice and fantasy" is a meditation on love, fate, architrcture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age.
In a brillant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates a host of unforgettable -amongst them. Quasimodo, the hunchback of the title, hopelessly in love with the gypsy girl Esmeralda, the satanic priest Claude Frollo, Clopin Trouillefou, king of the beggars, and Louis XI, King of France. Over the entire novel, both literally and symbolically, broods the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.
9781853260681
French novel
French literature
843 / / H895h
The hunchback of Notre-Dame / Victor Hugo - First edition - 449 pages ; 20 cm. - Wordsworth Classics . - Wordsworth Classics .
Set in 1482, Victor Hugo´s powerful novel of "imagination, caprice and fantasy" is a meditation on love, fate, architrcture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age.
In a brillant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates a host of unforgettable -amongst them. Quasimodo, the hunchback of the title, hopelessly in love with the gypsy girl Esmeralda, the satanic priest Claude Frollo, Clopin Trouillefou, king of the beggars, and Louis XI, King of France. Over the entire novel, both literally and symbolically, broods the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.
9781853260681
French novel
French literature
843 / / H895h