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1、TheHunchbackofNotreDameHugo,Victor(Translator:IsabelFlorenceHapgood)Published:1831Categorie(s):Fiction,Historical,RomanceSource:http://www.gutenberg.org1AboutHugo:Victor-MarieHugo(26February1802—22May1885)wasaFrenchpoet,novelist,playwright,essayist,visualartist,s
2、tatesman,humanrightscampaigner,andperhapsthemostinfluentialexponentoftheRo-manticmovementinFrance.InFrance,Hugo'sliteraryreputationrestsonhispoeticanddramaticoutput.Amongmanyvolumesofpoetry,LesContemplationsandLaLégendedessièclesstandparticularlyhighincriticalest
3、eem,andHugoissometimesidentifiedasthegreatestFrenchpoet.IntheEnglish-speakingworldhisbest-knownworksareoftenthenovelsLesMisérablesandNotre-DamedeParis(sometimestranslatedintoEnglishasTheHunchbackofNotre-Dame).Thoughextremelycon-servativeinhisyouth,Hugomovedtothep
4、oliticalleftasthedecadespassed;hebecameapassionatesupporterofrepublicanism,andhisworktouchesuponmostofthepoliticalandsocialissuesandartistictrendsofhistime.Source:WikipediaAlsoavailableonFeedbooksforHugo:•LesMisérables(1862)Note:ThisbookisbroughttoyoubyFeedbooksh
5、ttp://www.feedbooks.comStrictlyforpersonaluse,donotusethisfileforcommercialpurposes.2PREFACEAfewyearsago,whilevisitingor,rather,rummagingaboutNotre-Dame,theauthorofthisbookfound,inanobscurenookofoneofthetowers,thefollowingword,engravedbyhanduponthewall:—ANArKH.Th
6、eseGreekcapitals,blackwithage,andquitedeeplygraveninthestone,withIknownotwhatsignspeculiartoGothiccaligraphyimprin-tedupontheirformsandupontheirattitudes,asthoughwiththepur-poseofrevealingthatithadbeenahandoftheMiddleAgeswhichhadinscribedthemthere,andespeciallyth
7、efatalandmelancholymean-ingcontainedinthem,strucktheauthordeeply.Hequestionedhimself;hesoughttodivinewhocouldhavebeenthatsoulintormentwhichhadnotbeenwillingtoquitthisworldwithoutleavingthisstigmaofcrimeorunhappinessuponthebrowoftheancientchurch.Afterwards,thewall
8、waswhitewashedorscrapeddown,Iknownotwhich,andtheinscriptiondisappeared.ForitisthusthatpeoplehavebeeninthehabitofproceedingwiththemarvellouschurchesoftheMiddleA