THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics.‘Love is like a tree it grows of its own accord it puts down deep roots into our whole being.’Set in medieval Paris against the backdrop of the brooding Cathedral of Notre-Dame Hugo’s take on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast tells of the hunchbacked grotesque bellringer Quasimodo. Rejected by Parisian society because of his appearance Quasimodo resides in Notre-Dame harbouring a love for the only woman that pities him a gypsy named Esmerelda. However a sinister archdeacon also covets Esmerelda and when his advances are spurned he seeks to destroy her.