The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo, Isabel Florence Hapgood

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785501646599
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

A cathedral, a bell-ringer born deformed, a gypsy dancer and an archdeacon who cannot bear either of them, in a Paris of 1482 reconstructed street by street. Hugo wrote it to stop the demolition of medieval buildings, and it worked: the book began the restoration of Notre-Dame itself. The novel's real subject is the architecture, and the plot is what happens inside it. Its 226 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Preface
• Chapter I. The Grand Hall
• Chapter II. Pierre Gringoire
• Chapter III. Monsieur the Cardinal
• Chapter IV. Master Jacques Coppenole
• Chapter V. Quasimodo
• Chapter VI. Esmeralda
• Chapter I. From Charybdis to Scylla
• Chapter II. The Place de Grève
• Chapter III. Kisses for Blows
• Chapter IV. The Inconveniences of Following a Pretty Woman Through the Streets in the Evening
• Chapter V. Result of the Dangers
• Chapter VI. The Broken Jug
• Chapter VII. A Bridal Night
• Chapter I. Notre-Dame
• Chapter II. A Bird’s-Eye View of Paris
• Chapter I. Good Souls
• Chapter II. Claude Frollo
• Chapter III. Immanis Pecoris Custos, Immanior Ipse
• Chapter IV. The Dog and His Master
• Chapter V. More About Claude Frollo
• Chapter VI. Unpopularity
• Chapter I. Abbas Beati Martini
• Chapter II. This Will Kill That
• Chapter I. An Impartial Glance at the Ancient Magistracy
• Chapter II. The Rat-Hole
• Chapter III. History of a Leavened Cake of Maize
• Chapter IV. A Tear for a Drop of Water
• Chapter V. End of the Story of the Cake
• Chapter I. The Danger of Confiding One’s Secret to a Goat
• Chapter II. A Priest and a Philosopher Are Two Different Things
• Chapter III. The Bells
• Chapter IV. Ἀνáγκη
• Chapter V. The Two Men Clothed in Black
• Chapter VI. The Effect Which Seven Oaths in the Open Air Can Produce
• Chapter VII. The Mysterious Monk
• Chapter VIII. The Utility of Windows Which Open on the River
• Chapter I. The Crown Changed Into a Dry Leaf
• Chapter II. Continuation of the Crown Which Was Changed Into a Dry Leaf
• Chapter III. End of the Crown Which Was Turned Into a Dry Leaf
• Chapter IV. Lasciate Ogni Speranza—Leave All Hope Behind, Ye Who Enter Here
• Chapter V. The Mother
• Chapter VI. Three Human Hearts Differently Constructed
• Chapter I. Delirium
• Chapter II. Hunchbacked, One Eyed, Lame
• Chapter III. Deaf
• Chapter IV. Earthenware and Crystal
• Chapter V. The Key to the Red Door
• Chapter VI. Continuation of the Key to the Red Door
• Chapter I. Gringoire Has Many Good Ideas in Succession.—Rue Des Bernardins
• Chapter II. Turn Vagabond
• Chapter III. Long Live Mirth
• Chapter IV. An Awkward Friend
• Chapter V. The Retreat in Which Monsieur Louis of France Says His Prayers
• Chapter VI. Little Sword in Pocket
• Chapter VII. Chateaupers to the Rescue
• Chapter I. The Little Shoe
• Chapter II. The Beautiful Creature Clad in White. (Dante.)
• Chapter III. The Marriage of Phoebus
• Chapter IV. The Marriage of Quasimodo
• Note Added to the Definitive Edition
• About the Author