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Cover of “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame” by Victor Hugo

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Victor Hugo · 1831

493 pages

Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, is kept hidden by the archdeacon Frollo. When the gypsy dancer Esmeralda is accused of witchcraft, several men desire or condemn her, and the cathedral becomes both her refuge and her trap. Set in 1482 Paris among beggars, judges and stone gargoyles.

Tropes

Sympathetic Monster, Outcast Hero, Gothic, Forbidden Love, Melancholic

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