1890 Rare Victorian Gothic Book - Notre-Dame or The Bellringer of Paris by Victor Hugo.
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Author: Victor Hugo.
Title : Notre-Dame or The Bellringer of Paris. (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).
Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons, no date (1890).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5 " X 5 ".
Pages: 540 pages
Binding: Attractive and very good decorated full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, some light foxing - as shown, endpaper inner hinges worn but still tight - as shown).
The book: Rare Victorian edition in one volume of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris, "Our Lady of Paris") - a French Romantic/Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The novel's original French title, Notre-Dame de Paris, is a metaphor: it refers to Notre Dame Cathedral, on which the story is centered, and Esmeralda, the novel's main character who is "our lady of Paris" and the center of the human drama within the story. Frederic Shoberl's 1833 English translation was published as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (which became the generally used title in English), which refers to Quasimodo, Notre Dame's bellringer.
The author: Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside of France, his most famous works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris), 1831. In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages).