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Fiction · 1831

Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo · translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood

Reading time
about 13.5 h
Length
184,185 words · 653 pages
Structure
59 chapters · 3 front-matter sections
Language
English (translated from French)
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Volume I
  3. Book First
  4. Chapter I — The Grand Hall
  5. Chapter II — Pierre Gringoire
  6. Chapter III — Monsieur the Cardinal
  7. Chapter IV — Master Jacques Coppenole
  8. Chapter V — Quasimodo
  9. Chapter VI — Esmeralda
  10. Book Second
  11. Chapter I — From Charybdis to Scylla
  12. Chapter II — The Place de Grève
  13. Chapter III — Kisses for Blows
  14. Chapter IV — The Inconveniences of Following a Pretty Woman Through the Streets in the Evening
  15. Chapter V — Result of the Dangers
  16. Chapter VI — The Broken Jug
  17. Chapter VII — A Bridal Night
  18. Book Third
  19. Chapter I — Notre-Dame
  20. Chapter II — A Bird’s-Eye View of Paris
  21. Book Fourth
  22. Chapter I — Good Souls
  23. Chapter II — Claude Frollo
  24. Chapter III — Immanis Pecoris Custos, Immanior Ipse
  25. Chapter IV — The Dog and His Master
  26. Chapter V — More About Claude Frollo
  27. Chapter VI — Unpopularity
  28. Book Fifth
  29. Chapter I — Abbas Beati Martini
  30. Chapter II — This Will Kill That
  31. Book Sixth
  32. Chapter I — An Impartial Glance at the Ancient Magistracy
  33. Chapter II — The Rat-Hole
  34. Chapter III — History of a Leavened Cake of Maize
  35. Chapter IV — A Tear for a Drop of Water
  36. Chapter V — End of the Story of the Cake
  37. Volume II
  38. Book Seventh
  39. Chapter I — The Danger of Confiding One’s Secret to a Goat
  40. Chapter II — A Priest and a Philosopher Are Two Different Things
  41. Chapter III — The Bells
  42. Chapter IV — ἈΝÁΓΚΗ
  43. Chapter V — The Two Men Clothed in Black
  44. Chapter VI — The Effect Which Seven Oaths in the Open Air Can Produce
  45. Chapter VII — The Mysterious Monk
  46. Chapter VIII — The Utility of Windows Which Open on the River
  47. Book Eighth
  48. Chapter I — The Crown Changed Into a Dry Leaf
  49. Chapter II — Continuation of the Crown Which Was Changed Into a Dry Leaf
  50. Chapter III — End of the Crown Which Was Turned Into a Dry Leaf
  51. Chapter IV — Lasciate Ogni Speranza—Leave All Hope Behind, Ye Who Enter Here
  52. Chapter V — The Mother
  53. Chapter VI — Three Human Hearts Differently Constructed
  54. Book Ninth
  55. Chapter I — Delirium
  56. Chapter II — Hunchbacked, One Eyed, Lame
  57. Chapter III — Deaf
  58. Chapter IV — Earthenware and Crystal
  59. Chapter V — The Key to the Red Door
  60. Chapter VI — Continuation of the Key to the Red Door
  61. Book Tenth
  62. Chapter I — Gringoire Has Many Good Ideas in Succession.—Rue Des Bernardins
  63. Chapter II — Turn Vagabond
  64. Chapter III — Long Live Mirth
  65. Chapter IV — An Awkward Friend
  66. Chapter V — The Retreat in Which Monsieur Louis of France Says His Prayers
  67. Chapter VI — Little Sword in Pocket
  68. Chapter VII — Chateaupers to the Rescue
  69. Book Eleventh
  70. Chapter I — The Little Shoe
  71. Chapter II — The Beautiful Creature Clad in White. (Dante.)
  72. Chapter III — The Marriage of Phoebus
  73. Chapter IV — The Marriage of Quasimodo
  74. Note
  75. Footnotes

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Victor Hugo

1802–1885 · Victorian

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was born at Besançon and was famous as a poet and dramatist before he was thirty; Notre-Dame de Paris appeared in 1831. A peer of France who turned republican, he went into exile after Louis-Napoleon’s coup of 1851 and spent nineteen years in Jersey and Guernsey, where he wrote Les Misérables (1862). He returned to Paris in 1870, was given a state funeral in 1885 and is buried in the Panthéon.

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