Notre-Dame de Paris (Oxford World's Classics)

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Notre-Dame de Paris (Oxford World's Classics)

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At the center of Hugo's classic novel are three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer
Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion. Behind the central figures moves a pageant of picturesque characters, including the underworld of beggars and petty criminals whose assault on the
cathedral is one of the most spectacular set-pieces of Romantic literature.
Alban Kraisheimer's new translation offers a fresh approach to this monumental work by France's most celebrated Romantic authors.

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Il y avait seize ans à l'époque où se passe cette histoire que, par un beau matin de dimanche de la Quasimodo, une créature vivante avait été déposée après la messe dans l'église de Notre-Dame, sur le bois de lit scellé dans le parvis à main gauche, vis-à-vis ce grand image de saint Christophe que la figure sculptée en pierre de messire Antoine des Essarts, chevalier, regardait à genoux depuis 1413, lorsqu'on s'est avisé de jeter bas et le saint et le fidèle. C'est sur ce bois de lit qu'il était d'usage d'exposer les enfants trouvés à la charité publique. Les prenait là qui voulait. Devant le bois de lit était un bassin de cuivre pour les aumônes. --This text refers to the Digital edition.

Notre-Dame de Paris (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)),Victor Hugo,Alban Krailsheimer,Oxford University Press, USA,019283701X,Action & Adventure,Classics,European - French,Fiction,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,19th century fiction,Fiction / Classics,Literature/English | World Literature | France

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