num_pages: 416
description: Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Elizabeth Massie.He was Quasimodo--the bell ringer of Notre Dame. For most of his life he has been forced to live in lonely isolation in the bell tower of the famous catheral--hidden away like a beast, banished from sight, shunned and despised by all. For though he was gentle and kind, it was Quasimodo's crime to have been born hideously deformed. But one day his heart would prove to be a thing of rare beauty.She was the dazzling Esmerelda. A dark-eyed gypsy girl who, the victim of a coward's jealous rage, is unjustly convicted of a crime she did not commit. Her sentence is death by hanging. Only one man had the courage to save her: Quasimodo.
language: English
title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
titlecomplete: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
characters: Claude Frollo, Jean Frollo, Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers, Esmeralda, Quasimodo (Notre-Dame de Paris)), Pierre Gringoire, Sister Gudule
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Novels, Gothic, France, Historical Fiction, Fiction, French Literature, Romance
ratings_count: 196264
places: France, Paris
awards: awardedAt: 1672560000000
name: Audie Award
category: Literary Fiction & Classics
publisher: Barnes Noble Books