Description
Set in 1482, Victor Hugo’s powerful novel of ‘imagination, caprice and fantasy’ is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. Hugo creates a host of unforgettable characters – amongst them, Quasimodo, the hunchback of the title, hopelessly in love with the gyspy girl Esmeralda, the satanic priest Claude Frollo, Clopin Trouillefou, king of the beggars, and Louis XI, the King of France. The novel, both literally and symbolically, broods over the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Vivid characters and memorable action scenes combine to bring the past to life in this story of love, lust, betrayal and redemption.
