Penguin Books Ltd Notre-Dame De Paris

In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchbackedbell ringer.Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmeralda, abeautiful Roma street dancer to whom he becomes completely devoted.Esmeralda,however, has also attracted the attention of the sinister archdeacon Claude Frollo, andwhen she rejects his lecherous approaches, Frollo hatches a plot to destroy her that onlyQuasimodo can prevent.Victor Hugo's masterpiece brings to life the medieval Paris heloved, and mourns its passing, in one of the greatest historical romances of the nineteenthcentury.