A sumptuous dramatization of Victor Hugo's novel produced in 1923 by Universal Studios at the then phenomenal cost of $1.25 million. An extraordinary gamble, the film boldly deviated from established Hollywood formula and made its central character not a romantic ideal but a gruesomely disfigured "monster" incapable of arousing the beautiful leading lady to anything more than pity. As Quasimoto, Lon Chaney is a marvel of makeup and nonverbal expression, shuffling through the streets of medieval Paris, communing with the cathedral gargoyles, dutifully suffering the lash and humiliation for a crime committed against another, expressing a heart-rending love for a beautiful gypsy girl who naively sees only the military officer as the heroic ideal.
year: 1964, 1996, 2007, 2006, 2010, 2003, 1831, 2004, 1988, 2002, 1997, 1981, 1979, 1990, 2012, 1984, 1963, 1947, 1965, 1970, 1956, 1994, 1941, 1995
call number/section: 1000, 843, 741.5
subjects: physically handicapped, fiction, france, history, louis xi, 1461-1483, fiction, paris (france), to 1515, people with disabilities, quasimodo (fictitious character), quasimodo (fictional character), 1328-1589, house of valois, hugo, victor, fiction, medieval period, 987-1515, love, notre-dame de paris (cathedral), fantasy, middle ages, french fiction, notre-dame de paris (cathedral), fiction, people with physical disabilities, romances
Editions
Hugo, Victor
Signet Classic (1964)
In medieval Paris, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, Quasimodo, struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.
Schools: 2
Hugo, Victor
Puffin Books (1996)
In medieval Paris, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, Quasimodo, struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.
Schools: 8
Hugo, Victor
Bantam Dell (2007)
In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.
Schools: 7
Hugo, Victor
Saddleback Pub (2006)
Presents an illustrated version of the tale of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, and his struggle to save the gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.
Schools: 1
Hugo, Victor
Signet Classics (2010)
In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.
Schools: 2
Hutchinson, Emily
Saddleback (2003)
Adapts Victor Hugo's 1831 novel in which Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of medieval Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.
Schools: 1
Hugo, Victor
Scholastic (1831)
Schools: 2
Hugo, Victor
Barnes & Noble Classics (2004)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Signet Classic (1988)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Modern Library (2002)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Dorling Kindersley (1997)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Bantam Books (1981)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Dodd Mead (1979)
Relates the tragic life of the deformed Quasimodo and his hopeless love for the gypsy dancer Esmerelda.
Schools: 1
Hugo, Victor
Kino Video (1990)
A sumptuous dramatization of Victor Hugo's novel produced in 1923 by Universal Studios at the then phenomenal cost of $1.25 million. An extraordinary gamble, the film boldly deviated from established Hollywood formula and made its central character not a romantic ideal but a gruesomely disfigured "monster" incapable of arousing the beautiful leading lady to anything more than pity. As Quasimoto, Lon Chaney is a marvel of makeup and nonverbal expression, shuffling through the streets of medieval Paris, communing with the cathedral gargoyles, dutifully suffering the lash and humiliation for a crime committed against another, expressing a heart-rending love for a beautiful gypsy girl who naively sees only the military officer as the heroic ideal.
Schools: 1
Hugo, Victor
Alfred A. Knopf (2012)
In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.
Schools: 14
Hugo, Victor
Bantam (1984)
A tale of the hunchbacked bellringer of medieval Notre Dame, Quasimodo, whose love for the gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, had tragic consequences.
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Bantam Books (1963)
Classic tale of heroism and adventure set amidst the riot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris.
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Dodd (1947)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Signet (1963)
A tale of the hunchbacked bellringer of medieval Notre Dame, Quasimodo, whose love for the gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, had tragic consequences.
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Penguin Books (1965)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Everyman's Library/Dutton (1970)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Dodd (1947)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor Marie
Bantam Books (1956)
The haunting tragedy of Quasimodo, the monstrous bellringer of medieval Paris's greatest cathedral.
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Dodd, Mead (1947)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Dodd, Mead (1947)
In 1482, Quasimodo, a hunchback, mingles with the innocent Esmeralda and her antithesis, Claude Frollo.
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Playmore (1994)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Playmore (1994)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Dodd, Mead (1947)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Dodd, Mead (1947)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Grosset & Dunlap (1941)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
The Modern library (1941)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Bantam Books (1941)
Schools: 0
Victor Hugo
Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc (1947)
With illustrations of the author and the background of the story and reproductions of drawings for early editions of the book together with an introduction and descriptive captions by Curtis Dahl.
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Baronet Books (1994)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
The Modern library (1941)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
The Modern library (1941)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Bantam Books (1941)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Bantam Books (1941)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
(1947)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Bantam Books (1941)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Bantam Books (1941)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Set in medieval Paris Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Bantam Books (1963)
Classic tale of heroism and adventure set amidst the riot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris.
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Dodd (1947)
Schools: 1
Hugo, Victor
Signet (1963)
A tale of the hunchbacked bellringer of medieval Notre Dame, Quasimodo, whose love for the gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, had tragic consequences.
Schools: 1
Hugo, Victor
Bantam (1984)
A tale of the hunchbacked bellringer of medieval Notre Dame, Quasimodo, whose love for the gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, had tragic consequences.
Schools: 1
Hugo, Victor
Everyman's Library/Dutton (1970)
Schools: 1
Hugo, Victor
(1947)
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Dodd, Mead (1947)
In 1482, Quasimodo, a hunchback, mingles with the innocent Esmeralda and her antithesis, Claude Frollo.
Schools: 1
Hugo, Victor
Playmore (1994)
Schools: 1
Hugo, Victor
Playmore (1994)
Schools: 1
Hugo, Victor
Set in the year 1482, this novel relates the tragic life of the deformed Quasimodo and his hopeless love for the gypsy dancer Esmerelda.
Schools: 1
Hugo, Victor
Schools: 1
Hugo, Victor
Baronet Books (1995)
Schools: 1
Victor Hugo
Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc (1947)
With illustrations of the author and the background of the story and reproductions of drawings for early editions of the book together with an introduction and descriptive captions by Curtis Dahl.
Schools: 0
Hugo, Victor
Dodd, Mead (1947)
The tale of the hunchback bellringer of medieval Notre Dame, Quasimodo, whose love for the gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, had tragic consequences.
Schools: 1
Hugo, Victor
Grosset & Dunlap (1941)
Schools: 1