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| First Written | 1831 |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Origin | France |
| Publisher | Signet |
| ISBN-10 | 0451531515 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0451531513 |
| My Copy | cheap paperback |
| First Read | November 24, 2015 |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
This is on my reading list because:
- I read Le Mis and more or less liked it
- I love English and Russian novels from this time period
- But I don't really like any french authors at all.
SO: putting 1+1+1 should mean that I could find a French book that I actually like, maybe? This was decent - I enjoyed most of it - but there's not delightfulness here for me.
Noted on January 10, 2016
OK, it took a few hundred pages to get going, but this turned into a real page turner after a while. One thing that puzzled me: it's all architecture and lust and obsession and murder - who thought this would make a good kids movie?
Noted on January 10, 2016
Charmolue was stunned, as were the executioners and the entire escort. Indeed, within the walls of Notre-Dame, the prisoner was inviolable. The cathedral was a place of refuge. All human justice expired on its threshold.
Quoted on January 11, 2016
The noble damsels were dazzled in spite of themselves. Each felt that in some way her own beauty had been diminished. Consequently their battle line - forgive the expression - changed immediately, without a single word being uttered by any one of them. Women understand and respond to one another more quickly than do men. An enemy had arrived; all sensed it, all rallied to one another's defense. One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water. To tinge a whole company of pretty women with a certain amount of ill-humor, it is enough for just one prettier woman to arrive on the scene - especially when there is but one man present.
Quoted on January 11, 2016