The Hunchback of Notre Dame

First published in 1831 as Notre-Dame de Paris, this novel is set in fifteenth-century Paris around the cathedral. The dancer Esmeralda draws the desire of the archdeacon Claude Frollo, the devotion of the deaf bell-ringer Quasimodo, whom Frollo raised in the towers, and the shaky protection of the soldier Phoebus. A poet, Gringoire, and the beggars of the Court of Miracles fill the streets during feast and riot. The plot turns on sanctuary, a public accusation, and the stones of the church itself. The book is a historical novel of the cathedral and the city, not a biography of a real bell-ringer.

Bound in blue cloth blocked with a black and gilt design. Dark blue slipcase.