The Hunchback of Notre Dame

By Hugo, Victor

Book Id: WPLBN0000228908
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Author:	Hugo, Victor
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Ebook Library


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Excerpt
A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about Notre-Dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one of the towers, the following word, engraved by hand upon the wall: -- These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic caligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS. VOLUME I. BOOK FIRST. I. The Grand Hall II. Pierre Gringoire III. Monsieur the Cardinal IV. Master Jacques Coppenole V. Quasimodo VI. Esmeralda BOOK SECOND. I. From Charybdis to Scylla II. The Place de Grève III. Kisses for Blows IV. The Inconveniences of Following a Pretty Woman through the Streets in the Evening V. Result of the Dangers VI. The Broken Jug VII. A Bridal Night BOOK THIRD. I. Notre-Dame II. A Bird's-eye View of Paris BOOR FOURTH. I. Good Souls