The Hunchback Of NotrE-Dame

'One
might almost say that he had assumed its [the cathedral's] form as the
snail takes on the form of its shell.' Victor Hugo on Quasimodo

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
is one of the great love stories but it is served up with lashings of
horror. An instant classic first published in 1831, it's set in the
Paris of the 15th century, featuring a cast of thousands.

Three
men are in love with a beautiful street dancer called Esmerelda: the
handsome Captain Phoebus, the wicked Archdeacon Frollo and his adoptive
son Quasimodo, the bell-ringer of the cathedral. Naturally, this
situation leads to trouble. Wrongly accused of murdering Phoebus,
Esmerelda is sentenced to death and rescued from the gallows by
Quasimodo, who memorably carries her up to the tower.

Victor
Hugo claimed he wrote this book to save Paris's amazing gothic
centre-piece from the 'demolishers'. And such was the success of his
book that the immense building had to be restored to cope with the
influx of tourists its popularity produced.

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