But at the same time, he also placed ideals on the characters he loves. Also persecuted to death by the church and the autocratic dynasty. Esmeralda and Quasimodo are two upright and beautiful souls. The book has seen numerous screen adaptations, including director William Dieterle’s 1939 version starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara (the most expensive RKO production to that date) and the 1996 animated feature from Disney Studios. 'Notre Dame de Paris' is a tragic and brilliant tragedy for innocent and kind people who were persecuted under feudal despotism. First published in 1831 as Notre-Dame de Paris, Hugo’s book is “a stunning novelistic representation of late-medieval Paris and its central point… firmly rejects the idealization of the Middle Ages frequent among Romantic apologists for the ancien régime… Hugo’s novel was a hugely influential revelation of the descriptive intensity of Romantic prose” (Hollier, 662). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame was a revelation of what an historical novel could be” (Reid, 296). With “Standard Novels” title page and leaf of reviews at rear. Genres ClassicsFictionHistorical FictionFrance LiteratureFrench LiteratureGothic.more. Translated with A Sketch of the Life and Writings of the Author by Frederic Shoberl. The novel made Notre-Dame de Paris a national icon and served as a catalyst for renewed interest in the restoration of Gothic form. Octavo, bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, engraved frontispiece and title page. More commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugos Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love In the vaulted Gothic towers of. $3,500.00 Item Number: 127012įirst edition in English edition, first single-volume edition, and first edition to use the word “hunchback” in the title of one of Hugo’s most popular stories.

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