Notre Dame de Paris ((1 DVD movie included with the book))

Author: Victor Hugo
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Publish Date: 2003-07-02
Features: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) is a large-scale romantic novel by Hugo. It tells a story set in 15th-century France using bizarre and contrasting techniques: the seemingly pious and hypocritical Archdeacon Claude Frollo falls in love with the Gypsy girl Esmeralda and then becomes resentful, persecuting her. The ugly but kind bell ringer Quasimodo sacrifices himself to save the girl. The novel exposes the hypocrisy of religion, declares the bankruptcy of asceticism, and praises the kindness, friendship, and selflessness of the lower-class laboring people, reflecting Hugo's humanitarianism.