内容简介
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 thrilling stories of all time.
作者简介
Victor-Marie Hugo was born in 1802 at Besanon, where his
father, an officer under Napoleon, was stationed. In his first
decade the family moved from post to post: Corsica, Naples, Madrid.
After his parents separated in 1812, Hugo lived in Paris with his
mother and brothers. At twenty he married Adele Foucher and
published his first poetry collection. Hugo was elected to the
Academie Francaise in 1841. The accidental death two years later of
his eldest daughter and her husband devastated him and marked the
end of his first literary period. By then politics had become
central to his life. Though he was a Royalist in his youth, his
views became increasingly liberal after the July revolution of
1830: Freedom in art, freedom in society, there is the double goal.
He initially supported the political ascent of Louis Napoleon, but
turned savagely against him after being denied a role in government
following the coup de'tat of 1851. Hugo went into exile in Brussels
and Jersey, launching fierce literary attacks on the Second Empire.
After the fall of the Second Empire in 1870, Hugo returned to
France and was reelected to the National Assembly, and then to the
Senate. He had become a legendary figure and national icon.