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The hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo ; revised translation and notes by Catherine Liu ; introduction by Elizabeth McCracken

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The hunchback of Notre Dame

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Victor Hugo ; revised translation and notes by Catherine Liu ; introduction by Elizabeth McCracken

In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo

The hunchback of Notre Dame : Book I. : The great hall of the Palace of Justice -- Pierre Gringoire -- The cardinal -- Master Jacques Coppenole -- Quasimodo -- La Esmeralda -- Book II. : From Charybdis into Scylla -- The Place de Grève -- Beso para Golpes -- The unfortunate consequences of following a pretty girl in the street at night -- A chapter of accidents -- The broken jug -- A wedding night -- Book III. : Notre-Dame -- A birds-eye view of Paris -- Good souls -- Claude Frollo -- Immanis pecoris, custos immanior ipse -- The dog and his master -- Claude Frollo continued -- Unpopular -- Book V. : Abbas beati Martini -- "This will kill that" -- Book VI. : An impartial look at the ancient administration of justice -- The rat hole -- The story of cake -- A tear for a drop of water -- The end of the story of the cake -- Book VII. : The danger of trusting a goat with a secret -- A priest and philosopher are two different people -- The bells -- ANÁrKH -- The two men in black -- Consequences of seven oaths sworn in the open street -- The goblin monk -- The usefulness of windows looking toward the river -- Book VIII. : The coin transformed into a dry leaf -- The coin transformed into a dry leaf, part II -- Conclusion of the coin transformed into a dry leaf -- Lasciate ogni Speranza -- The mother -- Three human hearts differently constituted -- Book IX. : A high fever -- One-eyed, hunchback, and lame -- deaf -- Earthenware and crystal -- The key of the Porte Rouge -- The key of the Porte Rouge, part II -- Book X. : Gringoire has several excellent ideas one after another in the Rue Des Bernardins -- Become a Tramp -- L'Allegro -- A clumsy friend -- The retreat where Monsieur Louis of France says his prayers -- Petite flambe in Baguenaud -- Châteaupers to the rescue! -- Book XI. : The little shoe -- La creatura Bella Bianco Vestita -- The marriage of Captain Phoebus -- The marriage of Quasimodo -- Notes