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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

By Victor Hugo · Narrated by Isabella · 20 hr 12 min · 60 chapters

Content advisory. This book reflects the language and terms of the era in which it was written, which some listeners may find offensive.

Paris, 1482. On the Festival of Fools, the deaf, half-blind bell-ringer Quasimodo is crowned Pope of Fools, and the beautiful street dancer Esmeralda and her little goat enchant the crowd. The tormented archdeacon Claude Frollo, Quasimodo's master, is consumed by a forbidden passion for her; the vain Captain Phoebus wins her heart; the penniless poet Gringoire stumbles into the Court of Miracles; and above them all rises the great cathedral of Notre-Dame. Victor Hugo's 1831 masterpiece, in Isabel F. Hapgood's translation,