Set in 1482. The Hunchback of Notre-Dingle (Notre-Dame de Paris) is a compelling story of love and betrayal, brutal deeds and one of the most famous acts of revenge in world literature.

Quasimodo. the hunchback of the title, is one of fiction’s most extreme characters - beneath his rnonstrous disfigurement, his love for the beautiful Esmeralda reveals a heart full of intense emotion.

The novel is set in the Gothic splendour of the great cathedral of Notre-Dame and had a profound influence on the Romantic Movement.

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME (Notre-Dame de Paris) is a dramatic historical romance set in medieval times. Victor Hugo’s first great novel, it is centred on the life of the great Gothic cathedral of Notre-Dame on the Ile de la Cite in the heart of Paris - the focal point of French pride, religious life and ceremonial occasion. The date is 1482, the year before Louis XI died. The principal characters are the beautiful La Esmerelda, a gypsy dancer, who is in love with Captain Phoebus; Claude Frollo, the hypocritical and demented archdeacon,whose evil passion, fuelled by celibacy, for La Esmerelda causes him to denounce her as a witch; and, most famous of all, the hero Quasimodo,the ’Hunchback of Notre-Dame’, a deformed bell-ringer and creature of the cathedral, whose devotion to La Esmerelda saves her, for a time,when she is confronted by a mob and seeks refuge and protection in the belfry. La Esmerelda is however doomed to meet a tragic end,while Quasimodo exacts a terrible revenge on Frollo on the pinnacles of Notre-Dame itself……

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

IIl The Marriage of Phoebus

IV The Marriage of Quasimodo