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Notre-Dame de Paris Mass Market Paperback – January 12, 2009

French Edition by Victor Hugo (Author)

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When the mad archdeacon Claude Frollo plans to abduct the gypsy dancer Esmeralda, he employs Quasimodo, the hunchback bell ringer to Notre Dame Cathedral, to do the job for him. But the plan goes horribly wrong, and Esmeralda finds herself charged with the murder of Phoebus, the man she loved. In all its glory, medieval Paris comes to bustling life in this abridgement of Hugo's wonderful romance.

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Paris, 1482. Autour de la belle bohémienne Esmeralda, dont la danse résonne sur le parvis de Notre-Dame, gravitent trois prétendants prêts à tout pour la conquérir : Phoebus, noble capitaine, Claude Frollo, prêtre sans foi, et le célèbre Quasimodo, bossu au grand coeur... Surplombant le roman, la cathédrale, vivifiante Babel, lieu de refuge et d'épouvante aussi, voit se presser autour d'elle le peuple, acteur de l'Histoire en marche. Récit historique à la langue pittoresque et roman noir tout de meurtres et de mystère, Notre-Dame de Paris connaît, aujourd'hui encore, une popularité sans égale. Ainsi que l'écrivait Lamartine à l'auteur en 1831 : «C'est une oeuvre colossale, une pièce antédiluvienne. [...] Je ne vois rien à comparer dans nos temps à Notre-Dame. C'est le Shakespeare du roman, c'est l'épopée du Moyen Âge, c'est je ne sais quoi ; mais grand, fort, profond, immense, ténébreux comme l'édifice dont vous en avez fait le symbole.»

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ FLAMMARION; 0 edition (January 12, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ French
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 740 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 2081212161
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-2081212169
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.33 x 1.38 x 7.01 inches

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Victor Marie Hugo (/ˈhjuːɡoʊ/; French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo]; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best-known French writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry and then from his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831 (known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). He also produced more than 4,000 drawings, which have since been admired for their beauty, and earned widespread respect as a campaigner for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment.
Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed, and he became a passionate supporter of republicanism; his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and the artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon. His legacy has been honoured in many ways, including his portrait being placed on French franc banknotes.
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Only a part of the book!

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2024

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Silly me, I thought I was getting the whole book! This is not it.

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Davida C.

A Great but Difficult Read

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2013

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I'm a nearly 22 year old English major writer, and I read this because I love Gothic literature and archaic terms. I didn't know what I got myself into. I have an entire review on my blog writerswasteland.blogspot, but I can't post it here. If you want to read that, you can search, because I go in to incredible detail and compare and contrast it to cinematic depictions.

Overall: It's a great book with incredibly difficult archaic and Latin phrases. It's one of (if not the) most difficult book I've read for fun. It took me a few months to get through it, because I kept stopping, but it's beautiful. If you're reading it because you think it's like the Disney movie, you couldn't be more wrong, and only one character has a happy ending. I cried the last seven pages or so because it was so terribly sad. But it's beautiful, so beautiful, and there's a reason it's considered a classic.

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Jessica B.

Surprisingly Modern

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2012

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Everything in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a fascinating juxtaposition of the grotesque and the sublime - the speech, the characters, the setting. I felt like the whole point of the story was to show that architecture was the only good thing that came from the Middle Ages so for heaven's sake, don't tear those buildings down! We could never build something like that again! This book saved the Notre Dame Cathedral by giving people a reason to care about it and showing how Gothic architecture was beautiful even though it was different (which is a theme in the novel that applies to the characters as well). Victor Hugo likes lists that are very, very long full of even longer names and I found myself falling asleep a lot in the first half of the book. Then suddenly I get hit over the head by this steamy, passionate, action-packed, gruesomely violent second half of the novel complete with forbidden love. Didn't see that coming. I found it surprisingly modern in that there are a lot elements in this story that are popular in novels, especially young adult ones, today. Though I can't help but think that the girl would have been turned on by the whole forbidden/creepy love thing if it had been written today instead of her being horrified by it. And can I just say how shocked I was when he used the word "vampire" AND talked about Nicolas Flamel? There was some great sarcastic humor in here that had me smiling. This was Hugo's first novel after writing plays and it reads like one. There are lots of action scenes and he writes an excellent mob. He almost makes me want to grab a pitchfork. I walked away from this book thinking about what beauty and love really are.

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Mike B.

Long, but satisfying.

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2014

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Victor Hugo is one of, if not my favorite authors. The book was long and drawn-out much the same as Les Miserables, but it leaves you wanting nothing after you finish. The way Hugo writes is both sophisticated and visual, but not needlessly so as with some books. Some authors edit their books with a thesaurus in hand, but every word used in this book is essential to where it is placed. There are countless historical references that make the book that much more interesting and educational. It does make it longer though if you're like me and find interesting details and immediately need to look them up.
Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone who doesn't mind classic literature and enjoys many, many details.

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Togar

Novel, history lesson, and social critique

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2012

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a truly special work. The plot is thrilling and heartrendering and, such as he does in Les Miserables, Hugo gives us so much more. We get to experience 15th century Paris with unparellelled vividness, from the great Cathedral of Notre Dame to the under belly of the Court of Miracles.

This is an absolute must read for any lover of classic literature!

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2012

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Starts out very slow with a complete layout of Paris from the establishment of the city to the book's present day, intermixed with the lineage of rulers and their contributions to the city of Paris. I believe it was the authors intention to give a thorough portrayal of the history of the city, leaders, and architecture, but most of it was irrelevant and was stretched out beyond necessity. Once the storyline picked up, about a quarter of the way through, it became much more captivating. I would recommend briefly skimming the beginning to get the gist of things and then commence reading more in depth at the introduction of Quasimodo.

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2013

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Is it true that we desire most that which we can never have. The Hunchback of Notre Dame brought me through myriad emotions. Anger, pity and sorrow together in a novel worthy of being called a classic masterpiece. This work is for all. It will bring character from the most hardened heart and emotional understanding to those on the precipice of belief.

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Complex story. Slow reading

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2016

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The core story is wonderful and complex. However, Hugo's description of Paris, both physically and historically is quite detailed to the point of being laborious and it makes following of the plot line much harder than it needs to be. The plot line of the story is often interrupted for several pages, at a time. Hugo does paint a beautiful word picture of Paris in such minutia that one could almost use it to build a model of the main roads, buildings, bridges and gates of that city. If a film maker stuck to the book's complete content for the movie script, the film would twice as long as any film so far made of this story.

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Amei

Reviewed in Brazil on March 15, 2024

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Entrega rápida... Gostei de tudo.

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Excelente

Reviewed in Mexico on November 20, 2021

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Es la edición de grandes clásicos literaria de random house, Lo conseguí en 370 en el buen fin, lo compre por las ilustraciones de benjamin lacombe, entiendo también que existe otra edición con el mismo ilustrador dividido en dos libros pero más caros.
El tamaño es un poco más grande que las ediciones conmemorativas que saca alfaguara con la real academia española.
El contenido es de primera, el tamaño de letra es adecuado, con notas a puede página las imágenes están en papel cushe, en único pero que le pongo Esque las imágenes salen antes que el texto donde se habla de dicha imagen

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Un classique

Reviewed in France on April 24, 2024

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À lire vu l’inauguration prochaine de la cathédrale

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Imran Mushtaque

Hunchback of Notre Dame - A film on DVD

Reviewed in India on April 18, 2018

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Nice film version of my favourite Victor Hugo novel.Story of the ugly one eyed Hunchback who is deaf and dumb named Quasimodo He has a heart of gold and the beautiful gypsy girl Ismeralda whom he saves from the clutches of the Head Priest of Notre dame. The innocent girl ,however ,falls in love with an Army Captain who is frivolous , only flirts with the girl and but has no real feelings. The vicious priest takes his revenge on being denied control over the girl and declares her a witch. The captain fails in his duty to save the poor girl from the gallows on account of being declared a witch. Ironical story of the ugly Quasimodo , full of love and compassion , the handsome Captain , pompous, frivolous and lacking compassion , the lecherous priest and an innocent gypsy girl who meets a sad end.

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