The Hunchback of Notre Dame

De: Victor Hugo

Narrado por: George Guidall

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

Great Narration!!

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!

A perfect book

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.

just amazing

Get past the first 5 or so hours and you wont be able to put it down. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is all that it should be. Tragic love, gothic beauty and horror and the straddling of the knife's edge between dichotomies that Victor Hugo is so well known for.

Ah, Hugo!

Live it to the master to bring the medieval times to one’s reality! What an excruciatingly beautiful and powerful work.
Thank you George Guidall for your warm and compassionate read.

Master

Where does The Hunchback of Notre Dame rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Another greatest book in my opinion

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

One of my books for meaningful life, Victor Hugo was a great asset to mankind.

Humorous and good satire

Translation in modern English was interesting. Good story. A few morbid parts. Definitely imaginative. Some parts are quite a stretch.

The Hunchback of Norte Dame

Disney did not do the story justice...such a sad story/outcome. Awesome details of the Cathedral and France in 1680s

Amazing

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.

Beautiful classic

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

Incredible story! But needs an abridgement...

What made the experience of listening to The Hunchback of Notre Dame the most enjoyable?

The story itself was enjoyable! Scary, in the way that the darkness of the human soul is scarier than any paranormal thing you could dream up.

Any additional comments?

Audible chapters 7-8 are literally 80 minutes of architectural descriptions. Not only do they not effect the story in any noticeable way, they actually detracted from my enjoyment of the book, until I almost stopped reading. The strength of this book is in the characters, the feelings, the action. Skip to it and you'll be happier.