Rank 48 of 100
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Also known as Notre-Dame de Paris
Synopsis
In medieval Paris, a deaf bell-ringer, an archdeacon, and a captain all fix on Esmeralda, a Romani dancer the city is ready to condemn. Hugo wrote the book partly to shame France into saving its cathedral. The building is a character, and the men who claim to protect the woman are the danger.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1831
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Historical, Gothic
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 19th century
- Movement
- Romantic
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 940 pages
- Reported copies
- Among the most read French novels
- Kind
- Fiction