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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155513303321

Autore

Hugo Victor

Titolo

The hunchback of Notre Dame / / Victor Hugo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Sheba Blake Publishing, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-304-73975-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1606 p.)

Soggetti

People with disabilities

France History Louis XI, 1461-1483 Fiction

Paris (France) History To 1515 Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Sommario/riassunto

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris) is an 1831 French novel written by Victor Hugo. It is set in 1482 in Paris, in and around the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. The book tells the story of a poor barefoot Gypsy girl (La Esmeralda) and a misshapen bell-ringer (Quasimodo) who was raised by the Archdeacon (Claude Frollo). The book was written as a statement to preserve the Notre Dame cathedral and not to 'modernize' it, as Hugo was thoroughly against this.  The story begins during the Renaissance in 1482, the day of the Festival of Fools in Paris. Quasimodo, the deformed