Victor Hugo: Notre Dame in Paris

Notre-Dame de Paris, better known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, is a full-length novel by Victor Hugo. Published in 1831, it continues to be widely loved today. Transcending genre, the novel has reached readers around the world in many forms, including films, animation, and musicals. Set in 15th-century Paris, it vividly portrays the lives of the citizens and the city as they were at the time, and is considered one of the representative works of French Romantic literature. Story: Esmeralda, a young Romani woman, is a street dancer whose beauty and dazzling dancing always capture people's attention. One festival night, she is in danger of being kidnapped by assailants, but Captain Phoebus appears just in time and helps her escape unharmed. Struck by his gallant bearing and handsome appearance, Esmeralda thereafter burns with unrequited love for him. Meanwhile, someone secretly loves her even though his clerical position forbids love for a woman: Father Claude Frollo, the deputy bishop of Notre-Dame Cathedral. Constantly torn between reason and desire, he learns that Esmeralda loves Phoebus. Racked with jealousy, he ends up stabbing Phoebus. Esmeralda, who was there at the time, is accused of being the one who stabbed Phoebus and is sentenced to death after her trial. But before her execution, Quasimodo—the bell ringer of Notre-Dame, Frollo's adopted son and confidant, who had already been moved by Esmeralda's kind heart—rescues her from the scaffold...

Korean title: 파리의 노트르담

Korean author: 빅토르 위고

Korean publisher: 책만드는집

ISBN-13: 9788979448665