[Pocket Edition] World Literature Masterpieces Library - Notre-Dame de Paris

Author: (French) Victor Hugo, translated by Li Yumin
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a and a major novel of Romanticism. In the novel, Hugo, with his captivating and vivid writing, describes the entanglement, conflict, 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 false classicism, marking the complete victory of Romanticism. It is one of the recommended essential foreign literature books for 14 well-known Chinese professors, including Ji Xianlin. It is also one of the 10 essential foreign literary masterpieces recommended for university students by the academician Yu Ruqin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.