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Notre-Dame de Paris (Oxford World's Classics)
Victor Hugo
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Description for Notre-Dame de Paris (Oxford World's Classics)
paperback. Translator(s): Krailsheimer, Alban. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 404.
Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion. Behind the central figures moves a pageant of picturesque characters, ranging from the cruel, superstitious king, Louis XI, to the underworld of beggars and petty criminals. These disreputable truands' night-time assault on ... Read more
Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion. Behind the central figures moves a pageant of picturesque characters, ranging from the cruel, superstitious king, Louis XI, to the underworld of beggars and petty criminals. These disreputable truands' night-time assault on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
New
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199555802
SKU
9780199555802
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About Victor Hugo
He has also translated Balzac's Pere Goriot and Flaubert's Three Tales for the World's Classics.
Reviews for Notre-Dame de Paris (Oxford World's Classics)
Alban Krailsheimer's fluent new translation more than does justice to a great romantic classic.
Max Davidson, Weekend Telegraph
Max Davidson, Weekend Telegraph