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This edition of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Elizabeth Massie.

He was Quasimodo--the bell ringer of Notre Dame. For most of his life he has been forced to live in lonely isolation in the bell tower of the famous catheral--hidden away like a beast, banished from sight, shunned and despised by all. For though he was gentle and kind, it was Quasimodo's crime to have been born hideously deformed. But one day his heart would prove to be a thing of rare beauty.

She was the dazzling Esmerelda. A dark-eyed gypsy girl who, the victim of a coward's jealous rage, is unjustly convicted of a crime she did not commit. Her sentence is death by hanging.

Only one man had the courage to save her: Quasimodo.

維剋多·雨果（Victor Hugo，1802—1885）

法國作傢。法國浪漫主義文學的重要代錶。1841年當選法蘭西語文學院院士。生於軍官傢庭。長篇小說《巴黎聖母院》反對專製和教會。1861—1869年完成長篇小說《悲慘世界》，從人道主義觀點描寫資本主義社會的罪惡。《海上勞工》歌頌浪漫主義愛情在與大自然鬥爭和剋服人性弱點方麵的巨大精神力量。《笑麵人》通過流浪藝人的悲慘遭遇，描寫人民的苦難生活。1874年完成長篇小說《九三年》，描寫法國革命高潮一年的動人場景。其他作品有詩作《曆代傳說集》，歌頌曆史上人民反對罪惡統治者的鬥爭。還寫有政論和演說稿等。