Notre-Dame de Paris
by Victor Hugo
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This extraordinary historical novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by the specter of his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony, it is a work that gives full play to Victor Hugo's brilliant historical imagination and his remarkable powers of description.
Chapters (80)
- NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS
- Also known as:
- THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
- Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS
- VOLUME I.
- BOOK FIRST.
- CHAPTER I. THE GRAND HALL.
- CHAPTER II. PIERRE GRINGOIRE.
- CHAPTER III. MONSIEUR THE CARDINAL.
- CHAPTER IV. MASTER JACQUES COPPENOLE.
- CHAPTER V. QUASIMODO.
- CHAPTER VI. ESMERALDA.
- BOOK SECOND.
- CHAPTER I. FROM CHARYBDIS TO SCYLLA.
- CHAPTER II. THE PLACE DE GRÈVE.
- CHAPTER III. KISSES FOR BLOWS.
- CHAPTER IV. THE INCONVENIENCES OF FOLLOWING A PRETTY WOMAN THROUGH THE STREETS IN THE EVENING.
- CHAPTER V. RESULT OF THE DANGERS.
- CHAPTER VI. THE BROKEN JUG.
- CHAPTER VII. A BRIDAL NIGHT.
- BOOK THIRD.
- CHAPTER I. NOTRE-DAME.
- CHAPTER II. A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF PARIS.
- BOOK FOURTH.
- CHAPTER I. GOOD SOULS.
- CHAPTER II. CLAUDE FROLLO.
- CHAPTER III. IMMANIS PECORIS CUSTOS, IMMANIOR IPSE.
- CHAPTER IV. THE DOG AND HIS MASTER.
- CHAPTER V. MORE ABOUT CLAUDE FROLLO.
- CHAPTER VI. UNPOPULARITY.
- BOOK FIFTH.
- CHAPTER I. ABBAS BEATI MARTINI.
- CHAPTER II. THIS WILL KILL THAT.
- BOOK SIXTH.
- CHAPTER I. AN IMPARTIAL GLANCE AT THE ANCIENT MAGISTRACY.
- CHAPTER II. THE RAT-HOLE.
- CHAPTER III. HISTORY OF A LEAVENED CAKE OF MAIZE.
- CHAPTER IV. A TEAR FOR A DROP OF WATER.
- CHAPTER V. END OF THE STORY OF THE CAKE.
- VOLUME II.
- BOOK SEVENTH.
- CHAPTER I. THE DANGER OF CONFIDING ONE’S SECRET TO A GOAT.
- CHAPTER II. A PRIEST AND A PHILOSOPHER ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.
- CHAPTER III. THE BELLS.
- CHAPTER IV. ἈΝÁΓΚΗ.
- CHAPTER V. THE TWO MEN CLOTHED IN BLACK.
- CHAPTER VI. THE EFFECT WHICH SEVEN OATHS IN THE OPEN AIR CAN PRODUCE.
- CHAPTER VII. THE MYSTERIOUS MONK.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE UTILITY OF WINDOWS WHICH OPEN ON THE RIVER.
- BOOK EIGHTH.
- CHAPTER I. THE CROWN CHANGED INTO A DRY LEAF.
- CHAPTER II. CONTINUATION OF THE CROWN WHICH WAS CHANGED INTO A DRY LEAF.
- CHAPTER III. END OF THE CROWN WHICH WAS TURNED INTO A DRY LEAF.
- CHAPTER IV. LASCIATE OGNI SPERANZA—LEAVE ALL HOPE BEHIND, YE WHO ENTER HERE.
- CHAPTER V. THE MOTHER.
- CHAPTER VI. THREE HUMAN HEARTS DIFFERENTLY CONSTRUCTED.
- BOOK NINTH.
- CHAPTER I. DELIRIUM.
- CHAPTER II. HUNCHBACKED, ONE EYED, LAME.
- CHAPTER III. DEAF.
- CHAPTER IV. EARTHENWARE AND CRYSTAL.
- CHAPTER V. THE KEY TO THE RED DOOR.
- CHAPTER VI. CONTINUATION OF THE KEY TO THE RED DOOR.
- BOOK TENTH.
- CHAPTER I. GRINGOIRE HAS MANY GOOD IDEAS IN SUCCESSION.—RUE DES BERNARDINS.
- CHAPTER II. TURN VAGABOND.
- CHAPTER III. LONG LIVE MIRTH.
- CHAPTER IV. AN AWKWARD FRIEND.
- CHAPTER V. THE RETREAT IN WHICH MONSIEUR LOUIS OF FRANCE SAYS HIS PRAYERS.
- CHAPTER VI. LITTLE SWORD IN POCKET.
- CHAPTER VII. CHATEAUPERS TO THE RESCUE.
- BOOK ELEVENTH.
- CHAPTER I. THE LITTLE SHOE.
- CHAPTER II. THE BEAUTIFUL CREATURE CLAD IN WHITE. (Dante.)
- CHAPTER III. THE MARRIAGE OF PHOEBUS.
- CHAPTER IV. THE MARRIAGE OF QUASIMODO.
- NOTE ADDED TO THE DEFINITIVE EDITION.
- FOOTNOTES:
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