The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Before the huge crowd that packed the cathedral square, La Esmeralda stood between two executioners. Suddenly Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, rushed at the executioners and felled them with his enormous fists. He snatched the gypsy girl in one arm and ran with her into the church. A moment later he appeared at the top of the bell tower. Holding the girl above his head, he showed her triumphantly to all of Paris while his thunderous voice roared savagely to the sky: “Sanctuary! Sanctuary! Sanctuary!”
Set amid the riot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris, Victor Hugo’s masterful tale of heroism and adventure has been a perennial favorite since its first publication in 1831 and remains one of the most…
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August 31, 2011During his twenty-year career, Mark Cerasini has worked as a magazine editor and writer, a consultant, and a screenwriter, and has written more than forty books. He wrote an analysis of Tom Clancy's fiction for The Tom Clancy Companion. He has also written for The Briefing Room, a website and forum for authors of military fiction and nonfiction, techno-thrillers, and espionage novels.