The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.’Set in medieval Paris, against the backdrop of the brooding Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Hugo’s take on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast tells of the hunchbacked, grotesque bellringer, Quasimodo. Rejected by Parisian society because of his appearance, Quasimodo resides in Notre-Dame, harbouring a love for the only woman that pities him, a gypsy named Esmerelda. However, a sinister archdeacon also covets Esmerelda, and when his advances are spurned, he seeks to destroy her.
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME
Victor Hugo
CONTENTS
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Preface
Volume I
Book I
Chapter 1 The Grand Hall
Chapter 2 Pierre Gringoire
Chapter 3 Monsieur the Cardinal
Chapter 4 Master Jacques Coppenole
Chapter 5 Quasimodo
Chapter 6 Esmeralda
Book II
Chapter 1 From Charybdis to Scylla
Chapter 2 The Place de Greve
Chapter 3 Kisses for Blows
Chapter 4 The Inconveniences of Following a Pretty Woman Through the Streets in the Evening
Chapter 5 Result of the Dangers
Chapter 6 The Broken Jug
Chapter 7 A Bridal Night
Book III
Chapter 1 Notre-Dame
Chapter 2 A Bird’s-Eye View of Paris
Book IV
Chapter 1 Good Souls
Chapter 2 Claude Frollo
Chapter 3 Immanis Pecoris Custos, Immanior Ipse.
Chapter 4 The Dog and His Master.
Chapter 5 More About Claude Frollo
Chapter 6 Unpopularity
Book V
Chapter 1 Abbas Beati Martini
Chapter 2 This will kill that
Book VI
Chapter 1 An Impartial Glance at the Ancient Magistracy
Chapter 2 The Rat-Hole
Chapter 3 History of a Leavened Cake of Maize
Chapter 4 A Tear for a Drop of Water
Chapter 5 End of the Story of the Cake
Volume II
Book VII
Chapter 1 The Danger of Confiding one’s Secret to a Goat
Chapter 2 A Priest and a Philosopher are two Different Things
Chapter 3 The Bells
Chapter 4 ANArKH
Chapter 5 The Two Men Clothed in Black