He was Quasimodo--the bell ringer of Notre Dame. For most of his life he has been forced to live in lonely isolation in the bell tower of the famous catheral--hidden away like a beast, banished from sight, shunned and despised by all. For though he was gentle and kind, it was Quasimodo's crime to have been born hideously deformed. But one day his heart would prove to be a thing of rare beauty. She was the dazzling Esmerelda. A dark-eyed gypsy girl who, the victim of a coward's jealous rage, is unjustly convicted of a crime she did not commit. Her sentence is death by hanging. Only one man had the courage to save her: Quasimodo.
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ISBN: 0679642579 (2002 Modern Library Classics trade pbk.)
ISBN: 9780679642572 (2002 Modern Library Classics trade pbk.)
General Note: 2002 Modern Library Classics trade paperback edition contains a revised translation and notes by Catherine Liu and an introduction by Elizabeth McCracken.1981 Bantam paperback edition is translated and abridged by Lowell Bair.1979 Dodd Mead Great Illustrated Classics edition has illustrations of the author and the background of the story and reproductions of drawings for early editions of the book with an introduction and descriptive captions by Curtis Dahl.Translation of: Notre Dame de Paris.First published in 1831.