Notre Dame de Paris

Author: [French] Victor Hugo
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: One of the representative works of the great 19th-century French writer, playwright, and poet Victor Hugo. In the novel, Hugo uses his captivating and vivid writing to describe the entanglements, conflicts, and destruction of the fates of several main characters, such as Esmeralda, Quasimodo, and Claude. It tells a legendary tragic story set in Paris, France, in 1482, artfully recreating the historical reality of France during the reign of King Louis XI. The novel embodies Hugo's artistic principle of "contrast between beauty and ugliness." Its publication broke the shackles of false classicism, marking the complete victory of Romanticism. This book is a selected edition with color illustrations.