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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: George Guidall
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Quasimodo was born disfigured, hunchbacked and lame, and years spent ringing the bells of the Cathedral of Notre Dame have left him deaf, but also spared him the taunts of the cruel mobs of Paris. Now Quasimodo has fallen in love with the lovely Gypsy girl Esmeralda, the only person who ever showed pity on him - but she faces a death sentence, and only Quasimodo's pure spirit can save her. Or can he?

Translated by Catherine Liu.

Public Domain (P)1991 Recorded Books Classics Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt

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Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame tells the sad-yet-hopeful story of Quasimodo who loved kind Esmeralda to death. This classic example of French gothic literature has inspired numerous adaptations because of its enchanting story and beloved characters. George Guidall gives a performance deserving of Hugo's masterpiece. He effortlessly handles characters' French accents and engages the listener's imagination with well-placed pauses. This audiobook is a cathartic meditation on love and loyalty, enjoyable for every moment of its 22 hours.

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George Guidall is one of my favorite narrators! He knows how to read a story! this and Les Miserables imo are his two best performances! definitely worth a credit!

Great Narration!!

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This is the perfect book. Balanced so well between discourse and history, poetry and story. The characters created in this book have depths so unsearchable that a book of this length can't even begin to reveal them.

Love, loss, and the desire for beauty. This book is my favorite book of the year. I'm not a big reader, I like listening to simple easy books. This book is more complicated than my average book, but also much more profound.

A perfect book

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Victor Hugo’s stories always have an intriguing story ‘within.’ So goes The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, a novel admirably read by George Guidall. Hugo tells us the story of how happenstance in life can provide one with fortune or fortunate circumstances, and just as readily with destitution or destitute circumstances. There is much destitution in HND, the novel. Most of the misery arises from ignorance by humankind in looking upon the world operating about one. Superstitions, mysticism, and religion engender demonic results. Hugo-created tragedies are always worth the read. But be forewarned, in all Hugo novels, Hugo always includes, in long pedantic diversions away from his story, sub-essays in which he pontificates upon architecture, literature, the nobility, political subdivisions, the economics of the times, and a ton more of detritus having little to do with the story. More importantly, when he enters upon these side essays, he is not as good a storyteller as he is as a novelist.

Okay, so now you know a little about reading a Hugo novel and his writing. HND is still a volume worth the read. That is if you can handle the well-told depravations that come upon the book’s subjects. Especially when read by someone as good as Guidall, and a tragedy as haunting as HND.

The Hunchback, the Tragedy; Not Well Told

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The reader does a wonderful job- accents and pronounciations are superb. The story is fascinating, though I see why Disney wanted to rewrite the tragic ending. A bit of the description of Paris is rambling, without a map to help envision the locational references the author makes. Sound quality could be better, but it's not bad. A must read classic- highly recommended.

Amazing

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Full disclosure I am a huge fan of the classics. This book provides a wonderful visual description of France 1500s so beautifully written that you feel as though you are there. The narrator’s voice is silky smooth and almost meditating. Will listen to more than once. Audible 20 review sweepstakes entry

Beautiful classic

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