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). He has written on Jorge Luis Borges and Structuralism.Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1831. John Sturrock has translated many Penguin Classics, including Proust. He became a committed social democrat and during the Second Empire of Napoleon III was exiled from France, living in the Channel Islands. About the Author Victor Hugo (1802-85) was a forceful and prolific writer. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. This revised edition also includes further reading and a chronology of Hugos life. John Sturrocks clear, contemporary translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing it as a passionate novel of ideas, written in defence of Gothic architecture and of a burgeoning democracy, and demonstrating that an ugly exterior can conceal moral beauty. Victor Hugos sensational, evocative novel brings life to the medieval Paris he loved, and mourns its passing in one of the greatest historical romances of the nineteenth century. Esmerelda, however, has also attracted the attention of the sinister archdeacon Claude Frollo, and when she rejects his lecherous approaches, Frollo hatches a plot to destroy her, that only Quasimodo can prevent. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmerelda, a beautiful gypsy dancer to whom he bes completely devoted. Book Synopsis More commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugos Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer.

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