There is a hunchback and a beautiful gypsy woman and a doomed love story and cruelty and jealousy and persecution - but the principal character in this novel is the city of Paris, particularly the environs of the titular cathedral. And if you're going to dive into Victor Hugo, surely you want the beautiful descriptive prose, the classical and Biblical and historical allusions, the social commentary and humanism ?īut Hugo tyros should take note of the original title of the book. I'm not a fan of abridged books - after all, who does the abridging ? Not usually the genius who wrote the original. Like a lot of novels of this era, it's very long, and does have its tedious passages. Price: $15,000.Not the equal of Les Miserables, but a fine novel. Aussourd studied under his uncle Charles Meunier and was first gilder at Chambolle-Duru before starting his own business in 1912 (Devauchelle III, p. In a fine retrospective French romantic binding by René Aussourd, recalling the work of Simier or Thouvenin. The success of this darkly moving novel was immediate, establishing Hugo as the premier historical novelist of his time" (Oxford Companion to Literature in French). Indeed, Hugo created a depiction of Notre-Dame "so erudite and familiar that it caused a revolution in architectural taste.
Hugo hoped that his novel would reverse the sad neglect of Gothic architecture in his country, much of which had fallen into ruin or been brutally altered.
Set in 15th-century Paris, the novel introduces a memorable cast of Romantic characters some, such as the hunchback Quasimodo and the gypsy girl Esmérald, have so permeated our culture that they've reached the status of archetypes. Notre-Dame de Paris is more commonly known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, the title under which the first English translation by Frederic Shoberl appeared in 1833. The entire edition consisted of four separate issues of 275 copies each, with each issue designated as a separate edition on the title-page. Though styled the "Troisème Édition" on the title-page, this is in fact the third issue of the first edition. Item #307333 First edition, third issue, of Hugo's first great success as a novelist, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, in a fine retrospective binding by René Aussourd. In a custom gilt-ruled full brown morocco slipcase and chemise by R. I half-title, and repairs to a few other paper faults throughout.
Slight rubbing to extremities, expert paper repair to lower outside corner of vol. Bound to style in the early 20th-century in red half morocco and embossed paper over boards, smooth spines stamped in gilt and blind to cathedral design, t.e.g., the rest uncut, by René Aussourd (signed in gilt at foot of spine and on front free endpaper).
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