Notre-Dame de Paris (Full Translation with Illustrations)

Author: (French) Victor Hugo
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Features: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a long novel and a major work of Romanticism. In the novel, Hugo, with his captivating and vivid writing, describes 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 France under King Louis XI. The novel embodies Hugo's artistic principle of "contrast between beauty and ugliness." Its publication broke the shackles of pseudo-classicism, marking the complete victory of Romanticism. It is one of the recommended foreign literature books for college students by 14 renowned professors, including Ji Xianlin. It is also one of the 10 must-read foreign literary masterpieces for university students recommended by Academician Yu Ruqin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.