num_pages: 592
description: At the center of Hugo's classic novel are three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancerEsmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion. Behind the central figures moves a pageant of picturesque characters, including the underworld of beggars and petty criminals whose assault on thecathedral is one of the most spectacular set-pieces of Romantic literature.Alban Kraisheimer's new translation offers a fresh approach to this monumental work by France's most celebrated Romantic authors.
language: English
title: Notre-Dame de Paris
titlecomplete: Notre-Dame de Paris (Oxford World's Classics)
characters: Quasimodo (Notre-Dame de Paris)), Claude Frollo, Jean Frollo, Sister Gudule, Esmeralda, Pierre Gringoire, Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers
genres: Fiction, Historical, France, Gothic, French Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 196269
places: Paris, France
awards: awardedAt: 1672560000000
name: Audie Award
category: Literary Fiction & Classics
publisher: Oxford University Press