The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Name: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Victor Hugo
ISBN: 9781853260681

Victor Hugo

05/09/1993
Wordsworth Editions Ltd

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Hunchback of Notre-Dame par Victor Hugo

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in 1482, Victor Hugo's powerful novel of 'imagination, caprice and fantasy' is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates a host of unforgettable characters amongst them, Quasimodo, the hunchback of the title, hopelessly in love with the gypsy girl Esmeralda, the satanic priest Claude Frollo, Clopin Trouillefou, king of the beggars, and Louis X1, King of France. Over the entire novel, both literally and symbolically, broods the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. Vivid characters and memorable set-piece action scenes combine to bring the past to life in this story of love, lust, betrayal, doom and redemption. Biographie de l'auteur Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement and is considered one of the greatest French writers. Hugo s best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, 1831, both of which have had several adaptations for stage and screen.