《巴黎圣母院》是雨果的第一部重要代表作。全书艺术地再现了四百多年前法王路易十一统治时期的历史真实，宫廷与教会如何狼狈为奸压迫人民群众，人民群众怎样同两股势力英勇斗争。他把事实和想象，叙述和描写巧妙地结合起来，为纯朴善良的敲钟人和吉普赛女郎、邪恶狡诈的教士和队长都安排了毁灭的结局。作者将可歌可泣的故事和生动丰富的戏剧性场面有机地连缀起来，使这部小说具有很强的可读性。小说的发表，也使得雨果声名远扬。

Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel of 'imagination,caprice and fantasy' is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age.

In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates a host of unforgettable characters - amongst them,Quasimodo, the hunchback of the title, hopelessly in love with the gypsy girl Esmeralda, the satanic priest Claude Frollo, Clopin Trouillefou, king of the beggars, and Louis XI, King of France.Over the entire novel, both literally and symbolically, broods the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.

Vivid characters and memorable set-piece action scenes combine to bring the past to life in this story of love, lust,betraval, doom and redemption.

BOOK ONE

I The Great Hall

II Pierre Gringoire

III The Cardinal

IV Master Facques Coppenole

V Qnasimodo

VI Esmeralda

BOOK TWO

I From Charybdis into Scylla

II The Place de Greve

III Kisses for Blows

IV The Danger of Following a Pretty Woman in the Streets by Night

V Continuation of the Danger

VI The Broken Fug

VII A Wedding Night

BOOK THREE

I The Cathedral of Notre-Dame

II A Bird’s-Eye View of Paris

BOOK FOUR

I Good, Honest Souls

II Claude Frollo

III Immanis Pecoris Custos, Immanior Ipse

IV The Dog and his Master

V Claude Frollo, Continued

VI Unpopularity

BOOK FIVE

I Abbas Beati Martini

II One Shall Destroy the Other

BOOK SIX

I An Impartial Glance at the Ancient Magistracy

II The Rat Hole

III The Story of a Wheaten Cake

IV A Tear for a Drop of Water

V End of the Story of the Cake

BOOK SEVEN

I On the Danger of Confiding One’s Secret to a Goat

II Showing that a Priest and a Philosopher are Different Persons

III The Bells

IV Avarykg

V The Two Men in Black

VI The Effect which Seven Oaths Produce in the Open Air

VII The Spectre Monk

VIII The Advantage of Windows Overlooking the River

BOOK EIGHT

I The Crown Changed into a Withered Leaf

II Continuation of the Crown Changed into a Withered Leaf

III The End of the Crown Changed into a Withered Leaf

IV ‘Leave All Hope Behind’

V The Mother

VI Three Human Hearts Differently Constituted

BOOK NINE

I Delirium

II Hunchbacked, One-eyed, Lame

III Deaf

IV Earthenware and Crystal

V The Key of the Red Door

VI Sequd to the Key of the Red Door

BOOK TEN

I Gringoire has a Succession of Bright Ideas in the Rue des Bernardins

II TUTTI Vagabond!

Ill Long Live Mirth!

IV An Awkward Friend

V The Retreat in which Monsieur Louis of France says his Prayers

VI The Password

VII Chateaupers to the Rescue

BOOK ELEVEN

I The Little Shoe

II The Beautiful Creature Clad in White

III The Marriage of Phoebus

IV The Marriage of Quasimodo