The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

by Hugo, Victor; Cobb, Walter J.

• ISBN13: 9780451527882
• ISBN10: 0451527887
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Signet Classics

Summary

"Ugly and unwanted by the outside world, Quasimodo, the hunchback lives under the protection of the priest in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, France. Then his quiet life is destroyed by the priest's evil plans for a beautiful gypsy girl. The priest needs Quasimodo's help, but the hunchback has other ideas"--P. [4] of cover.

Author Biography

Born in 1802, the son of a high officer in Napoleon’s army, Victor Hugo spent his childhood against a background of military life in Elba, Corsica, Naples, and Madrid. After the Napoleonic defeat, the Hugo family settled in straitened circumstances in Paris, where, at the age of fifteen, Victor Hugo commenced his literary career with a poem submitted to a contest sponsored by the Académie Française. Twenty-four years later, Hugo was elected to the Académie, having helped revolutionize French literature with his poems, plays, and novels. Entering politics, he won a seat in the National Assembly in 1848; but in 1851, he was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Louis Napoleon. In exile on the Isle of Guernsey, he became a symbol of French resistance to tyranny; upon his return to Paris after the Revolution of 1870, he was greeted as a national hero. He continued to serve in public life and to write with unabated vigor until his death in 1885. He was buried in the Pantheon with every honor the French nation could bestow.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
BOOK I
The Great Hall	9	(14)
Pierre Gringoire	23	(9)
Monsieur the Cardinal	32	(7)
Master Jacques Coppenole	39	(9)
Quasimodo	48	(6)
La Esmeralda	54	(3)
BOOK II
From Charybdis to Scylla	57	(3)
The Place de Greve	60	(2)
Besos Para Golpes	62	(9)
The Inconveniences of Following a Pretty Girl in the Streets at Night	71	(4)
Sequel of the Inconveniences	75	(2)
The Broken Pitcher	77	(18)
A Wedding Night	95	(11)
BOOK III
Notre-Dame	106	(8)
A Bird's-Eye View of Paris	114	(25)
BOOK IV
Good Souls	139	(4)
Claude Frollo	143	(5)
Immanis Pecoris Custos Immanior Ipse	148	(7)
The Dog and His Master	155	(1)
More About Claude Frollo	156	(6)
Unpopularity	162	(2)
BOOK V
Abbas Beati Martini	164	(10)
This Will Kill That	174	(15)
BOOK VI
An Impartial Glance at the Ancient Magistracy	189	(10)
The Rat Hole	199	(5)
The Story of a Cake	204	(20)
A Tear for a Drop of Water	224	(8)
The End of the Story of the Cake	232	(2)
BOOK VII
Concerning the Danger of Confiding One's Secret to a Goat	234	(14)
A Priest and a Philosopher Are Not the Same	248	(9)
The Bells	257	(2)
'Anatkh	259	(14)
The Two Men Dressed in Black	273	(5)
The Effect of Swearing in Public	278	(4)
The Phantom Priest	282	(8)
The Usefulness of Windows Opening Upon the River	290	(8)
BOOK VIII
The Coin Changed into a Dry Leaf	298	(9)
Sequel to the Coin Changed into a Dry Leaf	307	(5)
End of the Coin Changed into a Dry Leaf	312	(3)
Lasciate Ogni Speranza	315	(13)
The Mother	328	(4)
The Hearts of Three Men Made Differently	332	(17)
BOOK IX
Fever	349	(11)
Hunchbacked, One-eyed, Lame	360	(3)
Deaf	363	(3)
Earthenware and Crystal	366	(11)
The Key to the Porte-Rouge	377	(2)
Sequel to the Key to the Porte-Rouge	379	(4)
BOOK X
Gringoire Has Several Wonderful Ideas in Succession in the Rue des Bernardins	383	(10)
Turn Truand	393	(2)
Hurray for the Gay Life!	395	(9)
An Awkward Friend	404	(19)
The Retreat Where Monsieur Louis of France Prays	423	(30)
The Password	453	(1)
Chateaupers to the Rescue!	454	(3)
BOOK XI
The Little Shoe	457	(32)
La Creatura Bella Bianco Vestita (Dante)	489	(8)
Phoebus' Marriage	497	(1)
Quasimodo's Marriage	498	(3)
Afterword	501	(9)
Selected Bibliography	510