Notre-Dame de Paris
by Victor Hugo
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“Notre-Dame de Paris is the tragic love story of the grotesquely ugly hunchback Quasimodo—a bellringer at Notre-Dame—and the wild and beautiful gypsy Esmerelda. They both die in the end. But what’s wonderful about the book is that good still triumphs over evil, at least for the reader. It shows the purity of love. It’s also a marvellous insight into late medieval Paris.” Read more...
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