Victor Hugo's classic adventure story tells of thetragic figure of Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre-DameCathedral and his devotion to La Esmeralda, the flamboyant gypsydancer.
When the demented archdeacon Claude Frollo plans to abduct LaEsmeralda, he employs Quasimodo to do the job for him. But the plangoes horribly wrong, and Esmeralda finds herself charged with themurder of Phoebus, the man she was in love with. In a thrillingscene of high drama, her kidnapper becomes her rescuer; but for howlong can she remain concealed from the evil Frollo? In awonderfully evocative novel, Victor Hugo brings medieval Paris toglorious, bustling life.
【作者简介】
Victor Hugo (1802 - 85) was a forceful and prolific writer. Hebecame a committed social democrat and during the Second Empire ofNapoleon III was exiled from France, living in the Channel Islands.His body is now buried in the Pantheon. John Sturrock hastranslated many Penguin Classics, including Proust. He has writtenon Jorge Luis Borges and Structuralism.
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