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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Audio Cassette) (Abridged)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Audio Cassette - Abridged Author:Victor Hugo, Bill Homewood (Narrator) In the grotesque bell-ringer Quasimodo, Victor Hugo created one of the most vivid characters in classic fiction. Quasimodo's doomed love for the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda is an example of the traditional love theme of beauty and the beast. Yet, set against the massive background of Notre Dame de Paris and inter... more »woven with the sacred and secular life of medieval France, it takes on a larger perspective.
The characters come to life: the poet Gringoire, the tormented priest Claude Frollo, the upright, fun-loving captain Phoebus and above all Quasimodo and Esmeralda themselves.
It is a tale peppered with humor but fueled by the anguish which unfolds beneath the bells of the great cathedral of Paris.
Abridged, 2 cassettes, 2 hours 37 minutes. Read by Bill Homewood.« less