Monsters and Misfits: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Hardcover)

from SweetbriarPoet

Victor Hugo has always wowed me with his ability to arrange language, with his broad cast of characters (who never resemble each other, but who still are believable and have endless amounts of humanity), and with his seemingly effortless flow from plot to subplot to unsuspected and terrific endin...

from ex_ottoyuhr

A difficult book to love -- almost as difficult as it is to hate. Hugo _knows_ his setting, all the more impressive when one considers how 'disreputable' the 15thC was considered to be during the 19th -- how little scholarship was being done on it. His characters are impossible to forget, and ins...

from deebee1

A hunchback, a gypsy, a mad priest. A church and a scaffold. Paris is not exactly the city of lights. Peopled by colourful characters, depraved creatures, hopeless beings, the architecture of the city, however, is a sight to behold. And the church of Notre Dame is the most magnificent of all. I e...

from deebee1

A hunchback, a gypsy, a mad priest. A church and a scaffold. Paris is not exactly the city of lights. Peopled by colourful characters, depraved creatures, hopeless beings, the architecture of the city, however, is a sight to behold. And the church of Notre Dame is the most magnificent of all. I e...

from ursula

In some ways, this reads like an odd book. If you read it for the story involving Esmeralda, the beautiful young gypsy girl, Quasimodo the hunchback bell-ringer and Frollo the archdeacon, you may be put off or annoyed by the digressions into the layout of Paris, or the architecture of Notre Dame,...