Notre-Dame de Paris (Color Illustrations)

Author: (French) Victor Hugo
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a long novel and a major work of Romanticism by Hugo. In the novel, Hugo uses captivating and vivid prose to depict the entanglements, conflicts, and destruction of the fates of several main characters, such as Esmeralda, Quasimodo, and Frollo. It tells a legendary tragic story set in 15th-century Paris, France, artfully recreating the historical reality of the reign of King Louis XI of France. The novel embodies Hugo's artistic principle of "contrast between beauty and ugliness." Its publication broke the shackles of pseudo-classicism, marking the complete triumph of Romanticism. It was selected for the list of "Essential Foreign Literature for Chinese Readers" recommended by 14 renowned professors, including Ji Xianlin. It is also one of the 10 essential foreign literary masterpieces recommended for university students by Yu Ruqin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.