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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Mass Market Paperback)

by Victor Hugo (Author), Lehrer (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Classics (Jun 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0812563123
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812563122
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.8 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Hard work but rewarding, 29 Oct 2008
By G. Rufino - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback)
Like many classic books, this one is quite hard work but definitely worth the effort. There are parts that I have to confess to skipping whole sale, overly long and verbose passages about gothic architecture, Paris of yore and the evils of the printing press. I'm sure these parts were fascinating to contemporary readers of Hugo but for modern readers they're incomprehensible and pointless so don't feel bad about skipping them. Ok Hugo wrote this book mainly in praise of the cathedral but I think for modern readers its allure is the characters.

Unlike the English title will have you believe, the hero of this book is not really Quasimodo. In fact there are no heroes, or heroines, in this book really. It's a study of human frailty, vanity, ignorance, lust and injustice. It's a compelling read and definitely worth the effort so I'd say persevere with it, you'll be glad you did.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful- persevere!, 27 May 2009
By R. Bulcock "the student book worm" (Hampshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback)
Set around the beautiful cathedral of Notre Dame the book illustrated to me the curse of both beauty and ugliness.

I loved this book, especially once I got over half-way through I couldn't put it down. However, I had to come back to it a few times at first. It's well worth persevering through the first few chapters.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Hard but rewarding read, 10 April 1999
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This review is from: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wordsworth Classics) (Paperback)
This one took me to two attempts two read as my mental abilities were reduced by ill health and this at times can be a rather long winded book. The book is actually broken into 11 books and I gave up after the first book last time. This time I was determined to get to the end as I don't like to be beaten and in the end I think it was worth it. The story is a good one and although the author goes of into what seem like long irrelevancies they mostly did have a point in the end. The big exception seemed to be Book 3 which is seems to be the authors views on the state of Architecture at the time (1850) and a tourists guide to Paris at the end of the 15th century obviously based on 1850. These two chapters did nothing for me at all and I think it is safe to miss them unless you have a better knowledge of Paris or architecture than me and find them interesting. I have the Wordswoth Classics edition of the book and it is 397 pages long. The typeface in the edition is rather small at about 44 lines per page so beware. The thing I did like about the writing style was it was very much like reading a film. He seemed to give overviews of scenes and then focus in on the detail. I don't recall reading a descriptive book that had the same feel to it before. It is certainly a completely different style to Wilkie Collins who was the previous Classical Author I read. I was interested to read the other reviews saying this was a great love story. I am still not sure between who. Several characters seemed to love Esmeralda. Claude Frollo seemed the strongest love to me but perhaps that doesn't count.
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Very good. A brilliantly written classic. Bought after a trip to see the Cathedral at Notre Dame. Wonderfully descriptive.
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