Victor Hugo's early novel, Notre Dame de Paris, pubfished in 1831 and set in medieval Pads of 1482, was the work that made his reputation outside his native France.First translated into English in 1833 by William Hazlitt the Younger as Notre Dame of Paris, the novel was released only a few months later in a second translation as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and has been known to English speakers by this title ever since. Although not as acclaimed as Hugo's 1862 masterpiece Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame nevertheless holds a special fascination. In addition to being a bestseller from its first publication, the novel has been the subject of many films.
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