num_pages: 662
description: A tremendous, emotionally stirring tragedy, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, features one of the most striking creations in all of fiction - Quasimodo, the hideously deformed bellringer of Notre-Dame de Paris during the turbulent final years of the fifteenth century. Rejected with disgust by all except the priest Claude Frollo, who took him in when the mob would have killed him, Quasimodo rescues the beautiful gypsy La Esmeralda, condemned for a crime she did not commit, and brings her to the sanctuary of the cathedral. But Quasimodo's beloved master, the superbly conceived arch-villain Frollo, has been corrupted by an obsessive lust for the girl. Only the true-hearted but reviled simpleton Quasimodo can hope to save her from Frollo's malevolent schemes. In the course of this compelling tale, Victor Hugo brilliantly captures the spirit of an age.
language: English
title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
titlecomplete: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
characters: Sister Gudule, Quasimodo (Notre-Dame de Paris)), Esmeralda, Pierre Gringoire, Jean Frollo, Claude Frollo, Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers
genres: Fiction, French Literature, Classics, France, Gothic, Historical, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 196245
places: Paris, France
awards: awardedAt: 1672560000000
name: Audie Award
category: Literary Fiction & Classics
publisher: Collector's Library