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Notre-Dame of Paris
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Notre-Dame of Paris Paperback - 1978

by Victor Hugo; John Sturrock (Translator); John Sturrock (Editor)


About this book

Victor Hugo’s famous French Gothic novel, Notre-Dame de Paris (also called The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), was originally published in 1831. It is set in Paris during the 15th century. It follows Quasimodo, a disabled bell-ringer, on his quest for love from the beautiful dancer, Esmerelda. The first edition, titled Notre-Dame de Paris, was written in French and published by Gosselin on the 16th of March, 1831, in Paris, France. Since then, the novel has been through numerous editions and has been translated to many different languages. Notre-Dame de Paris has also been adapted into many various film, television, and theatre productions since conception.


From the publisher

Born in 1802, the son of a high officer in Napoleon’s army, Victor Hugo spent his childhood against a background of military life in Elba, Corsica, Naples, and Madrid. After the Napoleonic defeat, the Hugo family settled in straitened circumstances in Paris, where, at the age of fifteen, Victor Hugo commenced his literary career with a poem submitted to a contest sponsored by the Académie Française. Twenty-four years later, Hugo was elected to the Académie, having helped revolutionize French literature with his poems, plays, and novels. Entering politics, he won a seat in the National Assembly in 1848; but in 1851, he was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Louis Napoleon. In exile on the Isle of Guernsey, he became a symbol of French resistance to tyranny; upon his return to Paris after the Revolution of 1870, he was greeted as a national hero. He continued to serve in public life and to write with unabated vigor until his death in 1885. He was buried in the Pantheon with every honor the French nation could bestow.

John Sturrock is a writer and critic who has previously translated Victor Hugo, Stendhal, and Rimbaud. A consulting editor at the London Review of Books, he lives in West Sussex, England.


John Sturrock is a writer and critic who has previously translated Victor Hugo, Stendhal, and Rimbaud. A consulting editor at the London Review of Books, he lives in West Sussex, England.

First Edition Identification

The first edition of Notre-Dame de Paris was published in Paris, France by Gosselin on March 16, 1831. 

The first English edition, translated by Frederic Shoberl, was published in 1833 by Richard Bentley in London. It includes an illustrated title page and frontispiece. 

The first US edition was published in 1834 by Carey Lea Blanchard in Philadelphia. There were just 1000 copies printed of this two-volume set. 


Details

  • Title Notre-Dame of Paris
  • Author Victor Hugo; John Sturrock (Translator); John Sturrock (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, London
  • Date 1978-10-26
  • ISBN 9780140443530 / 0140443533
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 5.38 x 0.91 in (19.30 x 13.67 x 2.31 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 15th Century
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
  • Library of Congress subjects Romances, France - History - Louis XI, 1461-1483 -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 79300035
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Victor Hugo (1802-85) was a forceful and prolific writer. He became a committed social democrat and during the Second Empire of Napoleon III was exiled from France, living in the Channel Islands. His body is now buried in the Pantheon.

John Sturrock has translated many Penguin Classics, including Proust. He has written on Jorge Luis Borges and Structuralism.

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