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Written in 1831 before Hugo was forced to flee from Louis Napoleon's France. In this novel, Hugo paints a vivid portrait of medieval Paris. Quasimodo, the one-eyed, hunchbacked refugee; Esmeralda, the dancing gypsy girl, threatened by the gallows; and a world where chaos is in charge--Hugo captures them all in this timeless, almost Gothic, piece of literature.--
PLAYAWAY. Hugo's classic novel of Esmeralda, Frollo and the bellringer Quasimodo.
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The tragic tale of Quasimodo's doomed infatuation with Esmeralda, the gypsy girl, that echos the classic theme of beauty and the beast.
Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the tormented archdeacon Claude Frollo, who lusts after her. Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, having fallen in love with the kindhearted Esmeralda, tries to save her by hiding her in the cathedral's tower. When a crowd of Parisian peasants, misunderstanding Quasimodo's motives, attacks the church in an attempt to liberate her, the story ends in tragedy.
Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmaralda from being unjustly executed after she is accused of witchcraft by the Bishop who lusts after her.
Sir Anthony Quayle reads The hunchback of Notre-Dame
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Set in medieval Paris, Victor Hugo's powerful historical romance The Hunchback of Notre Dame has resonated with succeeding generations ever since its initial publication in 1837. It tells the story of the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the tormented archdeacon Claude Frollo, who lusts after her. Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, having fallen in love with the kindhearted Esmeralda, tries to save her by hiding her in the cathedral's tower. When a crowd of Parisian peasants, misunderstanding Quasimodo's motives, attacks the church in an attempt to liberate her, the story ends in tragedy.An epic tale of beauty and sadness, The Hunchback of Notre Dame portrays the sufferings of humanity with compassion and power.
Set against the background of medieval Paris, this novel tells of Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and his devotion to the beautiful gypsy dancer La Esmeralda.
Quasimodo is a foundling, hideous to the eye and isolated by his deafness from the world, he is brought up in the cloisters of the cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris. There he cares for the great bells, observing the actions of populace from on high. He is drawn to the beauty of Esmeralda, rescuing her from the execution pyre, an action that sets a tragic series of events.
The classic love story of Esmeralda, the beautiful gypsy, and Quasimodo, the hunchback who has rung the bells of the cathedral for so many years that he has gone deaf.
Quaimodo is the lonely and deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame in Paris, will there ever be anyone that can brighten his life and relieve his sorrowful isolation? One day, he notices a gipsy girl dancing in the square below, and desires to get to know her. Events transpire so that the two meet, although all doesn't run smooth, and this tragic story draws unexpected and startling conclusions.
The tale of the hunchbacked bellringer of medieval Notre Dame, Quasimodo, whose love for the gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, had tragic consequences.
Tells the story of a crippled and deformed boy who is adopted by a young priest at Notre Dame cathedral. Even after growing up, he has no friends in the outside world until a young gypsy girl appears in the city.
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Abandoned as a baby and raised in the cathedral of Notre Dame, the hunchback Quasimodo lives as an outcast. The arrival of the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda begins a tragic series of events marked by jealousy, betrayal, and murder.
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Quasimodo, born a lame hunchback, has lived for many years as the bell ringer at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. Now he falls in love with the Gypsy girl Esmeralda, who is under a death sentence, and it seems that only by giving her up can he save her.
In the grotesque bell-ringer Quasimodo, Victor Hugo created one of the most vivid characters in classic fiction. Quasimodo's doomed love for the beautiful gypsy girl Esmerelda is an example of the traditional love theme of beauty and the beast. Yet, set against the massive background of Notre Dame de Paris and interwoven with the sacred and secular life of medieval France, it takes on a larger perspective. The characters come to life: the poet Gringoire, the tormented priest Claude Frollo, the upright, fun-loving captain Phoebus and above all Quasimodo and Esmerelda themselves. It is a tale peppered with humour but fuelled by the anguish which unfolds beneath the bells of the great cathedral of Paris.
Hugo's classic novel of Esmeralda, Frollo and the bellringer Quasimodo.
"In the grotesque bell-ringer Quasimodo, Victor Hugo created one of the most vivid characters in classic fiction. Quasimodo's doomed love for the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda is an example of the traditional love theme of beauty and the beast. Yet, set against the massive background of Notre Dame de Paris and interwoven with the sacred and secular life of medieval France, it takes on a larger perspective" -- Container.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame Read by Lowell Abbot
In the grotesque bell-ringer Quasimodo, Victor Hugo created one of the most vivid characters in classic fiction. Quasimodo's doomed love for the beautiful gipsy girl Esmeralda is an example of the traditional love theme of beauty and the beast. Yet, set against the massive background of Notre Dame de Paris and interwoven with the sacred and secular life of medieval France, it takes on a larger perspective. The characters come to life: the poet Gringoire, the tormented priest Claude Frollo, the upright, fun-loving captain Phoebus and above all Quasimodo and Esmeralda themselves. It is a tale peppered with humour but fuelled by the anguish which unfolds beneath the bells of the great cathedral of Paris.
A deformed foundling, Quasimodo is devoted to the priest Frollo, who rears him to be Notre Dame's bellringer. Then, insane with envy, Frollo uses the slavishly obedient hunchback to destroy the beautiful qypsy Esmeralda because she loves dashing Captain Phoebus. Heartbroken and enraged, Quasimodo rebels.
Ugly and deformed but humble and loyal, Quasimodo is the hunchback living in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. He is trapped between his love for a Gypsy girl and his love for the archdeacon, his benefactor.
Set in 15th century Paris, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, centers on gypsy dancer Esmerelda, who is kidnapped and then later rescued from the gallows by hunchbacked bell-ringer Quasimodo."--Container.
Written in 1831 before Hugo was forced to flee from Louis Napoleon's France. Set against the backdrop of medieval Paris, Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed as a witch.
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The last of the Mohicans retells the story of the exploits of a young white man and his Mohican Indian friends during the French and Indian War.
Julie Christie performs The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The hunchback of Notre Dame, first published by Victor Hugo in 1831, is set in fifteenth century Paris. The archdeacon of Notre Dame, Claude Frollo, falls in lust with Esmerelda--a gypsy dancer who is much admired in Paris. At his instruction, Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer of Notre Dame who he has befriended, kidnaps her. Esmerelda is rescued by Phoebus de Chateaupers (Captain of the Royal Archers) and she falls mistakenly in love with his bravery when he is in reality, something of a rogue and a braggart.
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In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, comes to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.
The three Musketeers retells the story of how a young Frenchman achieves his dream to become one of the prestigious musketeers who guard the king and his court.
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"Set in medieval Paris, The hunchback of Notre Dame tells the story of the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the tormented archdeacon Claude Frollo, who lusts after her. Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, having fallen in love with the kindhearted Esmeralda, tries to save her by hiding her in the cathedral's tower. When a crowd of Parisian peasants, misunderstanding Quasimodo's motives, attacks the church in an attempt to liberate her, the story ends in tragedy."--Container.
A retelling of the tale, set in medieval Paris, of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmaralda from being unjustly executed.
Ugly and unwanted by the outside world, Quasimodo, the hunchback lives under the protection of the priest in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, France. Then his quiet life is destroyed by the priest's evil plans for a beautiful gypsy girl. The priest needs Quasimodo's help, but the hunchback has other ideas -- p. 4 of cover.
The hunchback of Notre Dame retells the tale of the hunchbacked bellringer of medieval Notre Dame, Quasimodo, whose love for the gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, had tragic consequences.
History
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is set in 1482 in Paris, in and around the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. It tells the story of a poor Gypsy girl (La Esmeralda) and a misshapen bell-ringer (Quasimodo), one of the most colorful characters in literature, who falls in love with her. They are both victimized by a corrupt priest (Claude Frollo) and begin an adventure filled with great peril and great heroism.
Written in 1831 before Hugo was forced to flee from Louis Napoleon's France. In this novel, Hugo paints a vivid portrait of medieval Paris. Quasimodo, the one-eyed, hunchbacked refugee; Esmeralda, the dancing gypsy girl, threatened by the gallows; and a world where chaos is in charge--Hugo captures them all in this timeless, almost Gothic, piece of literature.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The hunchback of Notre-Dame
The hunchback of notre dame
Set in medieval Paris, The hunchback of Notre Dame tells the story of the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the tormented archdeacon Claude Frollo, who lusts after her. Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, having fallen in love with the kindhearted Esmeralda, tries to save her by hiding her in the cathedral's tower. When a crowd of Parisian peasants, misunderstanding Quasimodo's motives, attacks the church in an attempt to liberate her, the story ends in tragedy.
Fiction
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and a poor street poet. But Esmeralda is in love with a handsome soldier. When a mob mistakes her for a witch, it's up to Quasimodo to rescue her and claim sanctuary for her in the cathedral.
The hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo's classic tale of medieval Paris wherein Quasimodo, the physically misshapen bell-ringer, rescues the gypsy girl Esmeralda from the executioners in the square and claims sanctuary for the two of them in the cathedral of Notre-Dame.
"In the grotestque bell-ringer Quasimodo, Victor Hugo created one of the most vivid characters in classic fiction. Quasimodo's doomed love for the beautiful gpsy girl Esmeralda is an example of the traditional love theme of beauty and the beast. Yet, set against the massive background on Notre Dame de Paris and interwoven with the sacred and secular life of medieval France, it takes on a larger perspective"--Container.
Historical fiction
"In the grotestque bell-ringer Quasimodo, Victor Hugo created one of the most vivid characters in classic fiction. Quasimodo's doomed love for the beautiful gpsy girl Esmeralda is an example of the traditional love theme of beauty and the beast. Yet, set against the massive background on Notre Dame de Paris and interwoven with the sacred and secular life of medieval France, it takes on a larger perspective" -- Container.
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In medieval Paris, Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, struggles to save the gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
Written in 1831 before Hugo had to flee from Louis Napoleon's France for the Channel Islands. In this novel--perhaps his most popular--Hugo paints a vivid portrait of medieval Paris.
Classic House presents The hunchback of Notre Dame
The hunchback of Notre Dame [electronic resource]
PARIS (France) SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS 16TH CENTURY.
Notre-Dame de Paris (Cathedral) Fiction.
FRANCE History LOUIS XI, 1461-1483 Fiction.