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.

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. Translated with A Sketch of the Life and Writings of the Author by Frederic Shoberl. I bear the dungeon within me within me is winter, ice, and despair I have darkness in my soul. He is hoisted on a throne and paraded around Paris by the jeering mob. The reason for the confusion of titles is. This is the central theme of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a sweeping, grand-scale musical based on the 1996 Disney film and Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel. During the 1482 Festival of Fools in Paris, Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, is elected the Pope of Fools for being the ugliest person in Paris. We in the English-speaking world know the book as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and tend to focus on the character of Quasimodo, the bell-ringer whose physical deformities conceal a brave and kind heart. Octavo, bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, engraved frontispiece and title page. Notre Dame, the great cathedral of central Paris, gave Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel its original title. $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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