Notre-Dame de Paris

Author: Bront? (Bront? C.)
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Publishing Date: 2005-01-01
Features: In the work The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, the rebellious Gypsy girl Esmeralda and the physically deformed cripple Quasimodo are presented to readers as embodying truth, goodness, and beauty, while Bishop Claude and noble soldier Phoebus represent the personification of cruelty, emptiness, and sin. The work exposes the hypocrisy of religion, declares the bankruptcy of asceticism, praises the kindness of the lower-class laboring people, and reflects Hugo's humanitarianism. This book is a biographical novel based on a true story. In 1919, to crush the newborn Soviet government in its cradle, foreign intervention forces supported figures such as the former Russian Navy Admiral Kolchak and Denikin, encircling Moscow from all sides.