| Playing Time |
023734 |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 37743 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Abridged. |
| Performer |
Read by Bill Homewood. |
| Note |
Duration: 2:37:34. |
| Summary |
In the grotesque bell-ringer Quasimodo, Victor Hugo created one of the most vivid characters in classic fiction. Quasimodo's doomed love for the beautiful gipsy girl Esmeralda is an example of the traditional love theme of beauty and the beast. Yet, set against the massive background of Notre Dame de Paris and interwoven with the sacred and secular life of medieval France, it takes on a larger perspective. The characters come to life: the poet Gringoire, the tormented priest Claude Frollo, the upright, fun-loving captain Phoebus and above all Quasimodo and Esmeralda themselves. It is a tale peppered with humour but fuelled by the anguish which unfolds beneath the bells of the great cathedral of Paris. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
France -- History -- Louis XI, 1461-1483 -- Fiction.
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Paris (France) -- History -- To 1515 -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Homewood, Bill.
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| Added Title |
Notre-Dame de Paris. English
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| Other Form: |
Original 9626340061 (OCoLC)33499553 |
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