The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Classic Starts Series)

by Victor Hugo, Deanna McFadden (Abridged by), Lucy Corvino (Illustrator), Arthur Pober (Afterword)

Overview

Set in a richly rendered 15th century Paris, Victor Hugo’s powerful drama focuses on a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda, the two men (including an obsessed and manipulative priest) who love her, and the pitiful hunchback Quasimodo who tries to save her. With this simplified yet spellbinding version, kids can enjoy all the excitement of Hugo’s masterful story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402786877
Publisher:	Union Square Kids
Publication date:	12/07/2010
Series:	Classic Starts® Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	597,648
Lexile:	580L (what's this?)
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	7 - 9 Years

About the Author

"If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away," the larger-than-life Victor Hugo once confessed. Indeed, this 19th-century French author's books — from the epic drama Les Misérables to the classic unrequited love story The Hunchback of Notre Dame — have spanned the ages, their themes of morality and redemption as applicable to our times as to his.

Date of Birth:

February 26, 1802

Date of Death:

May 22, 1885

Place of Birth:

Besançon, France

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

Pension Cordier, Paris, 1815-18