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Victor Hugo

French
1802 – 1885
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (illustrated, complete, and unabridged)

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Victor Hugo's 1831 French Gothic novel — originally titled Notre-Dame de Paris — is a cornerstone of world literature, centering on the deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo, the Romani street dancer Esmeralda, and the obsessive Archdeacon Claude Frollo against the vivid backdrop of 15th-century Paris. This Kindle edition presents the text as complete and unabridged, making it a substantive entry point to a novel considered a classic of French literature. Its ambitions run far beyond a love triangle: Hugo designed the work as a sustained argument for the preservation of Gothic architecture and France's cultural heritage, and readers who come expecting a streamlined narrative will encounter something richer, stranger, and more architecturally digressive than the story's many film adaptations imply.

Reviewed Jun 2, 2026

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