Charles Dickens The Haunted HouseThomas Hardy The Fiddler of the ReelsAnthony Trollope The Parson's Daughter of Oxney ColneD H Lawrence The Prussian OfficerRudyard Kipling The Phantom RickshawH G Wells Under the KnifeWilkie Collins The Dead HandSaki TobermoryRobert Louis Stevenson A Lodging for the NightM R James Oh， Whistle， and I'll Come to You， My LadJohn Galsworthy The Broken BootGissing The House of CobwebsEliot The Lifted Veil
《巴黎圣母院》The Hunchback of Notre DameThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris) is an 1831 French novel written by Victor H It is set in 1482 in Paris， in and around the cathedral of Notre Dame de P The book tells the story of a poor barefoot Gypsy girl (La Esmeralda) and a misshapen bell-ringer (Quasimodo) who was raised by the archdeacon (Claude Frollo) The book was written as a statement to preserve the Notre Dame cathedral and not to 'modernize' it， as Hugo was thoroughly against Hugo finished the book just as he was running out of This tempted him to title the work What There Is in a Bottle of I[1] He eventually decided against it and called the book Notre-Dame de P English translations of the book are often titled The Hunchback of Notre Dame， which have led some to believe that Quasimodo is the main Hugo never liked this title， preferring the original Notre-Dame de P He gave this title because he considered the cathedral itself to be the main "character" of the The story takes place around and inside the church， and Hugo spent much time describing the building as well as decrying its abandonment after the abuse it suffered during the French Revolution; during the Revolution， the church had been viewed as a symbol of the old regime and was pillaged and vandalized by angry As stated by many critics and scholars， the Cathedral of Notre Dame appears to be the main setting， which is almost elevated to the status of a Indeed， the original French title of the book， Notre-Dame de Paris (the formal title of the Cathedral) shows that the cathedral (and not Quasimodo) is the subject of the The book portrays the Gothic era as one of extremes of architecture， passion， and Like many of his other works， Hugo is also very concerned with social justice， and his descriptions of religious fanaticism are also Another unique element of the book is the way in which Hugo changes the roles of protagonist and antagonist， hero and villain， between characters throughout the The enormous popularity of the book in France spurred the nascent historical preservation movement in that country and strongly encouraged Gothic revival Ultimately it led to major renovations at Notre-Dame in the 19th century led by Eugène Viollet-le-D Much of the cathedral's present appearance is a result of this In The Hunchback of Notre Dame， Victor Hugo makes frequent reference to the architecture of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in PHe also mentions the invention of the printing press， when the bookmaker near the beginning of the work speaks of "the German "Victor Hugo lived a few homes away from Victor of Aveyron， the first well-documented feral child，[2] although the inspiration for Quasimodo's character is not directly linked to
