num_pages: 367
description: Before the huge crowd that packed the cathedral square, La Esmeralda stood between two executioners. Suddenly Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, rushed at the executioners and felled them with his enormous fists. He snatched the gypsy girl in one arm and ran with her into the church. A moment later he appeared at the top of the bell tower. Holding the girl above his head, he showed her triumphantly to all of Paris while his thunderous voice roared savagely to the sky: “Sanctuary! Sanctuary! Sanctuary!”Set amid the riot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris, Victor Hugo’s masterful tale of heroism and adventure has been a perennial favorite since its first publication in 1831 and remains one of the most thrilling stories of all time.
language: English
title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
titlecomplete: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Bantam Classics)
characters: Jean Frollo, Quasimodo (Notre-Dame de Paris)), Sister Gudule, Pierre Gringoire, Claude Frollo, Esmeralda, Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers
genres: Novels, Historical Fiction, France, French Literature, Classics, Historical, Romance, Fiction, Literature, Gothic
ratings_count: 196312
places: Paris, France
awards: awardedAt: 1672560000000
name: Audie Award
category: Literary Fiction & Classics
publisher: Bantam Books