The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (Macmillan Collector's Library)

Author: Victor Hugo

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  • : $16.99 AUD
  • : 9781909621619
  • : PAN MACMILLAN UK
  • : Macmillan Collector's Library
  • : June 2016
  • : 150mm X 93mm
  • : October 2015
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Barcode 9781909621619
9781909621619

Description

Hugo's grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men- Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and Captain Phoebus. Falsely accused of trying to murder Phoebus, who attempts to rape her, Esmeralda is sentenced to death and rescued from the gallows by Quasimodo who defends her to the last.The subject of many adaptations for stage and screen, this remains perhaps one of the most romantic yet gripping stories ever told.

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The complete and unabridged text of Victor Hugo's sweeping novel in a pocket hardback edition

Author description

Victor-Marie Hugo was born in Besancon, France in 1802. A precocious writer, in 1827 he published his epic verse drama Cromwell, a political allegory whose preface might be regarded as a Romanticist manifesto. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame followed in 1831 and throughout the following decade he wrote a number of plays, stories and poetry collections. However, his literary output in the few years after 1843, when his daughter died in a drowning accident, was sparse. He began a new novel as an outlet for his grief, but would only complete it many years later as Les Miserables (1862). He died in 1885.