This book is available for free download in a number of formats including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. The story of a gypsy girl, a misshapen bellringer, and the ancient cathedral notre dame. Even though he set the hunchback of notredame in 1489, he did not. Fu il primo grande successo dello scrittore francese. The novel has been described as a key text in french literature and has been adapted for film over a dozen times, as well as numerous television and stage adaptations, such as a 1923 silent film with lon chaney, a 1939 sound film with charles laughton. A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about notredame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one of the towers, the following word. Phoebus, noble capitaine, claude frollo, pretre sans foi, et le celebre quasimodo, bossu au grand cour. The grotesque hunchback quasimodo, bellringer of notredame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, claude frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer esmeralda. After the manner of his nationfor french fiction tolerates an amount of unmerited misery to. Our own great novelists work is fresher, healthier perhaps, more of the open air. Best of all, it gives us one of literatures most loving and detailed depictions of a city, rivaled only by joyces dublin in.
Contrary to what every movie based on the book would lead you to believe see below, it is primarily about paris and the cathedral and medieval french society, against which backdrop a story of obsessive lust, naive love, and betrayal unfolds. In good condition, with thin area top edge, with full margins. As a work of art this novel would only be improved by the omission of the chapters on the topography of paris and the architecture of the cathedral. You may copy it, give it away or reuse it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this ebook or online at.
Hugo was a pioneer of the romantic movement in literature, which stressed individual experience over classical themes. The english title is the hunchback of notre dame, and it has also been made into movies. Although it lacks the depth and humanity of les miserables, it possesses a grandeur of architectonic structure and an olympian compassion all its own. In good condition, with thin area top edge, with full margins, 6 12 x 11 58, the sheet 10 58 x 17 inches. This novel still fascinates, generation after generation, those readers who decide to look into its pages despite the fact that nowadays it is a hackneyed story due to its own success exploitation. Download the hunchback of notre dame victor hugo pdf. On the steps of notre dame, judge claude frollo murdered quasimodos mother by making her fall down the steps. Free books of french literature in english, pdf, epub, mobi, fb2, azw3, kindle. Within months of its initial publication, a french dramatist, dubois, wrote. The cathedral was consecrated to the virgin mary and considered to be one of the finest examples of french gothic architecture. Schneiderman 45, fourth state of 9, delteil 38, fourth state of 8. A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about notre dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one of the towers, the following word, engraved by hand upon the wall.
Tradition has it that notredames first stone was laid in 1163 in the presence of pope alexander iii. The grand hall best known authors and titles are available on the free online library. Condition a fine copy in a jacket with one coinsized chip to the rear panel and several other minute chips at corners. Frenchenglish free bilingual online book with sentence under sentence alignment. This building serves as a home to the protagonist, quasimodo. It appears in various disney productions taking place in the city, most notably as the central location of the hunchback of notre dame. At the center of hugos classic novel are three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession.
I felt like the whole point of the story was to show that architecture was the only good thing that came from the middle ages so for heavens sake, dont tear those buildings down. Everything in the hunchback of notredame is a fascinating juxtaposition of the grotesque and the sublime the speech, the characters, the setting. Victor hugo, in notre dame, was animated by a quite other spirit. Nov 03, 2006 everything in the hunchback of notre dame is a fascinating juxtaposition of the grotesque and the sublime the speech, the characters, the setting. The novel has been described as a key text in french literature and has been adapted for film over a dozen times, as well as numerous television and stage adaptations, such as a 1923 silent film with lon chaney, a 1939 sound.
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