The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo [0]
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Victor Hugo
The World of Victor Hugo and The Hunchbach of Notre Dame
Introduction
Preface
BOOK ONE
CHAPTER I - The Great Hall
CHAPTER II - Pierre Gringoire
CHAPTER III - The Cardinal
CHAPTER IV - Master Jacques Coppenole
CHAPTER V - Quasimodo
CHAPTER VI - Esmeralda
BOOK TWO
CHAPTER I - From Charybdis to Scylla
CHAPTER II - The Place de Grève
CHAPTER III - Besos Para Golpes
CHAPTER IV - The Inconveniences of Following a Pretty Woman in the Street at Night
CHAPTER V - The Continuation of the Inconveniences
CHAPTER VI - The Broken Pitcher
CHAPTER VII - A Wedding Night
BOOK THREE
CHAPTER I - Notre-Dame
CHAPTER II - A Bird‘s-Eye View of Paris
BOOK FOUR
CHAPTER I - Kind Souls
CHAPTER II - Claude Frollo
CHAPTER III - Immanis Pecoris Custos, Immanior Ipse
CHAPTER IV - The Dog and His Master
CHAPTER V - More about Claude Frollo
CHAPTER VI - Unpopularity
BOOK V
CHAPTER I - Abbas Beati Martini
CHAPTER II - The One Will Kill the Other
BOOK SIX
CHAPTER I - An Impartial Glance at the Ancient Magistracy
CHAPTER II - The Rat-Hole
CHAPTER III - The Story of a Wheaten Cake
CHAPTER IV - A Tear for a Drop of Water
CHAPTER V - End of the Story of the Cake
BOOK SEVEN
CHAPTER I - On the Danger of Confiding a Secret to a Goat
CHAPTER II - Showing that a Priest and a Philosopher Are Two Very Different Persons
CHAPTER III - The Bells
CHAPTER IV - ’Anátkh
CHAPTER V - The Two Men Dressed in Black
CHAPTER VI - The Effect Produced by Seven Oaths in the Public Square
CHAPTER VII - The Spectre Monk
CHAPTER VIII - The Advantage of Windows Overlooking the River
BOOK EIGHT
CHAPTER I - The Crown Piece Changed to a Dry Leaf
CHAPTER II - Continuation of the Crown Piece Changed to a Dry Leaf
CHAPTER III - End of the Crown Piece Changed to a Dry Leaf
CHAPTER IV - Lasciate Ogni Speranza
CHAPTER V - The Mother
CHAPTER VI - Three Men’s Hearts, Differently Constituted
BOOK NINE
CHAPTER I - Delirium
CHAPTER II - Deformed, Blind, Lame
CHAPTER III - Deaf
CHAPTER IV - Earthenware and Crystal
CHAPTER V - The Key to the Porte-Rouge
CHAPTER VI - The Key to the Porte-Rouge (continued)
BOOK TEN
CHAPTER I - Gringoire Has Several Capital Ideas in Succession in the Rue des Bernardins
CHAPTER II - Turn Vagabond!
CHAPTER III - Joy Forever!
CHAPTER IV - An Awkward Friend
CHAPTER V - The Retreat Where Louis of France Says His Prayers
CHAPTER VI - “The Chive in the Cly”
CHAPTER VII - Châteaupers to the Rescue
BOOK ELEVEN
CHAPTER I - The Little Shoe
CHAPTER II - La Creatura Bella Bianco Vestita
CHAPTER III - Marriage of Phœbus
CHAPTER IV - Marriage of Quasimodo
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Endnotes
Inspired by The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Comments & Questions
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Upon this barrow rode resplendent, with crosier, cope, and miter, the new Pope of Fools, the bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, Quasimodo the Hunchback. (page 66)
The trunk of the tree is fixed; the foliage is variable. (page 111)
Say if you know of anything on earth richer, more joyous, more mellow, more enchanting than this tumult of bells and chimes; than this furnace of music; than these ten thousand brazen voices singing together through stone flutes three hundred feet in length; than this city which is but an orchestra; than this symphony which roars like a tempest. (page 134)
“This foundling, as they call it, is a regular monster of abomination.” (page 136)
The poor little imp had a wart over his left eye, his head was buried between his shoulders, his spine was curved, his breastbone prominent, his legs crooked; but he seemed lively; and although it was impossible to say in what language he babbled, his cries proclaimed a certain amount of health and vigor. (page 142)
It was Quasimodo, bound, corded, tied, garotted, and well guarded. The squad of men who had him in charge were assisted by the captain of the watch in person, wearing the arms of France embroidered