Notre-Dame de Paris

by Victor Hugo (translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood)

Credits: Victor Hugo (author)

Summary

In fifteenth-century Paris, a gypsy dancer, a priest, a captain and the bell-ringer Quasimodo are bound together beneath the cathedral. Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, in Isabel Hapgood's translation. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.

Chapters (59)

  1. 1. The Grand Hall
  2. 2. Pierre Gringoire
  3. 3. Monsieur the Cardinal
  4. 4. Master Jacques Coppenole
  5. 5. Quasimodo
  6. 6. Esmeralda
  7. 7. From Charybdis to Scylla
  8. 8. The Place De Grève
  9. 9. Kisses for Blows
  10. 10. The Inconveniences of Following a Pretty Woman
  11. 11. Result of the Dangers
  12. 12. The Broken Jug
  13. 13. A Bridal Night
  14. 14. Notre-Dame
  15. 15. A Bird’s-Eye View of Paris
  16. 16. Good Souls
  17. 17. Claude Frollo
  18. 18. Immanis Pecoris Custos, Immanior Ipse
  19. 19. The Dog and His Master
  20. 20. More About Claude Frollo
  21. 21. Unpopularity
  22. 22. Abbas Beati Martini
  23. 23. This Will Kill That
  24. 24. An Impartial Glance at the Ancient Magistracy
  25. 25. The Rat-Hole
  26. 26. History of a Leavened Cake of Maize
  27. 27. A Tear for a Drop of Water
  28. 28. End of the Story of the Cake
  29. 29. The Danger of Confiding One’s Secret to a Goat
  30. 30. A Priest and a Philosopher Are Two Different Things
  31. 31. The Bells
  32. 32. ἀνáγκη
  33. 33. The Two Men Clothed in Black
  34. 34. The Effect Which Seven Oaths in the Open Air Can
  35. 35. The Mysterious Monk
  36. 36. The Utility of Windows Which Open on the River
  37. 37. The Crown Changed into a Dry Leaf
  38. 38. Continuation of the Crown Which Was Changed into a
  39. 39. End of the Crown Which Was Turned into a Dry Leaf
  40. 40. Lasciate Ogni Speranza—Leave All Hope Behind, Ye
  41. 41. The Mother
  42. 42. Three Human Hearts Differently Constructed
  43. 43. Delirium
  44. 44. Hunchbacked, One Eyed, Lame
  45. 45. Deaf
  46. 46. Earthenware and Crystal
  47. 47. The Key to the Red Door
  48. 48. Continuation of the Key to the Red Door
  49. 49. Gringoire Has Many Good Ideas in Succession.—Rue Des
  50. 50. Turn Vagabond

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