Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Ebook33 pages12 minutes

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    By Bright Summaries

    4/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Hunchback of Notre Dame with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, the tragic tale of a deformed bell-ringer, a beautiful Roma girl and the complicated love affair in which they become entangled. While many people have seen the Disney adaptation, the original novel is much more complex and intricate, providing a detailed portrait of 15th century French society as well as depicting the struggles of different social classes. Hugo’s legacy lives on today, as he has inspired countless writers around the world and his portrait was even used on French bank notes.

    Find out everything you need to know about The Hunchback of Notre Dame in a fraction of the time!

    This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you:
    • A complete plot summary
    • Character studies
    • Key themes and symbols
    • Questions for further reflection

    Why choose BrightSummaries.com?
    Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you in your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.

    See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateNov 9, 2016
    ISBN9782806281081
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    Read more from Bright Summaries

    Related authors

    Related to The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (Book Analysis)

    Related ebooks

    Literary Criticism For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Halley’s Comet And Me

      Jun 9, 2021

      I CAN CLEARLY REMEMBER when and where I got my first glimpse of Halley’s Comet. It was late 1985, I was in a paddock in the middle of nowhere armed with a pair of binoculars, and it was my birthday. I put the binos to my eyes, looked up, found the fi

      1 min read

    • Article

      Who Was Fulcanelli?

      Apr 21, 2022

      Fulcanelli is the name used by the French author of two seminal esoteric works: The Mystery of the Cathedrals (1926) and The Dwellings of the Philosophers (1929). The former is a study of gothic cathedrals, describing the symbology found within them

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Magical History Of Britain

      May 23, 2019

      Author Martin Wall Publisher Amberley Publishing Price £20 Released Out now for example, the section about 16th-century astrologer and mathematician John Dee could have been supplemented with material on the wider spiritual activities of the Elizabet

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Once And Future Sex

      Feb 23, 2023

      Author: Eleanor Janega Publisher: Norton Price: £22 Released: 3 March 2023 When we think of medieval women, our thoughts tend to drift towards the women we can put a name to. Figures like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Joan of Arc are known to us because o

      1 min read

    • Article

      If You Frame It Like That

      Mar 2, 2020

      If You Frame It Like That
      9 min read

    • Article

      From Dark Forests

      Jan 5, 2023

      An Illustrated History Roger Luckhurst Thames and Hudson 2021 Hb, 288pp, £28, ISBN 9780500252512 “An Illustrated History” runs the subtitle, but “A Global History” – while perhaps not giving due credit to its stunning images – might also have served

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Village Explainer

      Jan 8, 2020

      The Village Explainer
      5 min read

    • Article

      Necrolog

      Mar 23, 2023

      Folklore and the world of forteana lost a rising star with the untimely death of Kai Roberts following a short illness. He was the son of my friend and long-time FT contributor Andy Roberts. I first met Kai when he was just four years old at his home

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Ruskington Horror

      Jan 28, 2021

      The Ruskington Horror
      17 min read

    • Article

      The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make

      Aug 19, 2020

      Our human world is soaked in light. For starters there are the 100,000 trillion photons arriving every second at every square centimeter of Earth’s dayside surface, after racing here from the outer envelope of a natural giant thermonuclear reactor we

      5 min read

    • Article

      Welcome

      Aug 12, 2021

      Welcome
      1 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: R.O. Kwon

      Dec 15, 2017

      The other night, at a party, someone asked if I consider my writing to be political. I said no, but also yes, always, what else can it be, since I’m an immigrant, a woman, and a person of color, living in a time and place in which more or less every

      3 min read

    • Article

      Trump Derangement Syndrome

      Feb 23, 2023

      Just like stains, some ghosts can prove more stubborn to remove than others. Whereas a quick splash of Holy Water and prayer might suffice to see off most spooks, others require rather more obscure methods of banishment. Yet for sheer oddness, the ef

      6 min read

    • Article

      Hidden Histories

      Mar 16, 2023

      Kavita Puri is a journalist and broadcaster for BBC Radio 4 whose history series include Three Pounds in My Pocket. She is also the author of Partition Voices: Untold British Stories (Bloomsbury, 2019) I SPEND A LOT OF MY TIME THINKING ABOUT historic

      2 min read

    • Article

      Building A fortean Library

      Oct 7, 2021

      “Life after death will hardly be worth calling life if it remains merely static. That is one reason why nobody believes any more in the playing of harps.” So writes our chosen author, the late Paul Beard – reminding one of the excellent Rabbi Isodore

      8 min read

    • Article

      Weird, Weird West

      May 17, 2022

      Weird, Weird West
      3 min read

    • Article

      Behind The Scenes

      Aug 9, 2018

      Those of our readers who have glanced at this page know that, over my past eight years as editor in chief, my favorite kind of letter is one in which I preview what the next pages hold. The staff here at ARCHAEOLOGY—editors Jarrett A. Lobell, Eric A.

      1 min read

    • Article

      Mexican Wave

      Oct 2, 2022

      A large portrait of a glamorous, red-haired European woman reclining on a couch surrounded by calla lilies (see page 36) is a key work in the Auckland Art Gallery’s upcoming show, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Art and Life in Modern Mexico. The 1943

      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (Book Analysis)

    4/5

    1 rating1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      Other than some grammatical mistakes, not bad. This does a pretty great job at summarizing a 5000 page book into something you can finish in minutes.

    Book preview

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

    French poet, playwright, novelist and politician

    Born in Besançon in 1802

    Died in Paris in 1885

    Notable works:

    Hernani (1830), play

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1832), novel

    Les Misérables (1862), novel

    Victor Hugo, a poet, novelist, playwright and politician, was an emblematic writer of French Romanticism. Considered to be the leader of the romantics, he also led an active political life, intervening in worthy causes such as the abolition of the death penalty. During the Second Empire, he was forced into exile (1851-1870) in Jersey, then in Guernsey where he notably wrote Les Misérables.

    When he died in 1885, the Republic organised a huge national funeral, and he was celebrated by the public at the greatest French writer.

    A story that

    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1