THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME
Written by Victor Hugo, Walter J. Cobb, Quentin Blake
Illustrated by Quentin Blake
Published by Folio Society
in 1998
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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME
Written by Victor Hugo, Walter J. Cobb, Quentin Blake.
Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1208928
1st thus.
1998.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Introduction & illustrations by Quentin Blake. Translated by Walter J. Cobb. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine and gilt & black vignette to front. Two colour illustrations. Top edge blue. xii and 442 pages. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- BOOK ONE
- 1 The Great Hall
- 2 Pierre Gringoire
- 3 Monsieur the Cardinal
- 4 Master Jacques Coppenole
- 5 Quasimodo
- 6 La Esmeralda
- BOOK TWO
- 1 From Charybdis to Scylla
- 2 The Place de Greve
- 3 Besos Para Golpes
- 4 The Inconveniences of Following a Pretty Girl in the Streets at Night
- 5 Sequel to the Inconveniences
- 6 the Broken Pitcher
- 7 A Wedding Night
- BOOK THREE
- 1 Notre-Dame
- 2 A Bird's-Eye View of Paris
- BOOK FOUR
- 1 Good Souls
- 2 Claude Frollo
- 3 Immanis Pecoris Custos Immanior Ipse
- 4 The Dog and his Master
- 5 More about Claude Frollo
- 6 Unpopularity
- BOOK FIVE
- 1 Abbas Beati Martini
- 2 This Will Kill That
- BOOK SIX
- 1 An Impartial Glance at the Ancient Magistracy
- 2 The Rat Hole
- 3 The Story of a Cake
- 4 A Tear for a Drop of Water
- 5 The End of the Story of the Cake
- BOOK SEVEN
- 1 Concerning the Danger of Confiding one's Secret to a Goat
- 2 A Priest and a Philosopher are Not the Same
- 3 The Bells
- 4 'ANAI KH
- 5 The Two Men Dressed in Black
- 6 The Effect of Swearing in Public
- 7 Th Phantom Priest
- 8 The Usefulness of Windows Opening upon the River
- BOOK EIGHT
- 1 The Coin Changed into a Dry Leaf
- 2 Sequel to the Coin Changed into a Dry Leaf
- 3 End of the Coin Changed into a Dry Leaf
- 4 Lasciate Ogni Speranza
- 5 The Mother
- 6 The Hearts of Three Men Made Differently
- BOOK NINE
- 1 Fever
- 2 Hunchbacked, One Eyed, Lame
- 3 Deaf
- 4 Earthenware and Crystal
- 5 The Key to the Porte-Rouge
- 6 Sequel to the Key to the Porte-Rouge
- BOOK TEN
- 1 Gringoire has Several Wonderful Ideas in Succession in the Rue des Bernardins
- 2 Turn Truand
- 3 Hurray for the Gay Life!
- 4 An Awkward Friend
- 5 The Retreat where Monsieur Louis of France Prays
- 6 The Password
- 7 Chateaupers to the Rescue!
- BOOK ELEVEN
- 1 The Little Shoe
- 2 La Creatura Bella Biance Vistita (Dante)
- 3 Phoebus's Marriage
- 4 Quasimodo's Marriage