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Book Review of Hunchback of Notre Dame

Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Author: Victor Hugo
Book Type: Hardcover
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From the Publisher
This extraordinary historical novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by the specter of his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony, it is a work that gives full play to Victor Hugo's brilliant historical imagination and his remarkable powers of description.