Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame):

by Victor Hugo, Julie Rose (translator)

One of the world's most iconic novels—a timeless story of love in the face of difference and prejudice—in a sparkling new translation commemorating the restoration of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper

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

496 pages, Paperback

Expected publication January 26, 2027

About the author

After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).

This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad.