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       THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME

       Victor Hugo

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

      Preface

      Volume I

      Book I

      Chapter 1 The Grand Hall

      Chapter 2 Pierre Gringoire

      Chapter 3 Monsieur the Cardinal

       Book IV

       Chapter 1 Good Souls

       Chapter 2 Claude Frollo

       Chapter 3 Immanis Pecoris Custos, Immanior Ipse.

       Chapter 4 The Dog and His Master.

       Chapter 5 More About Claude Frollo

       Chapter 6 Unpopularity

       Book V

       Chapter 1 Abbas Beati Martini

       Chapter 2 This will kill that

       Book VI

       Chapter 1 An Impartial Glance at the Ancient Magistracy

       Chapter 2 The Rat-Hole

       Chapter 3 History of a Leavened Cake of Maize

       Chapter 4 A Tear for a Drop of Water

       Chapter 5 End of the Story of the Cake

       Volume II

       Book VII

       Chapter 1 The Danger of Confiding one’s Secret to a Goat

       Chapter 2 A Priest and a Philosopher are two Different Things

       Chapter 3 The Bells

       Chapter 4 ANArKH

       Chapter 5 The Two Men Clothed in Black

       Chapter 6 The Effect which Seven Oaths in the Open Air can Produce

       Chapter 7 The Mysterious Monk

       Chapter 8 The Utility of Windows which Open on the River

       Book VIII

       Chapter 1 The Crown Changed into a Dry Leaf

       Chapter 2 Continuation of the Crown which was Changed into a Dry Leaf.

       Chapter 3 End of the Crown which was Turned into a Dry Leaf

       Chapter 4 Lasciate Ogni Speranza—leave all hope behind, ye who enter here

       Chapter 5 The Mother

       Chapter 6 Three Human Hearts Differently Constructed

       Book IX

       Chapter 1 Delirium

       Chapter 2 Hunchbacked, One Eyed, Lame

       Chapter 3 Deaf

       Chapter 4 Earthenware and Crystal

       Chapter 5 The Key to the Red Door

       Chapter 6 Continuation of The Key to The Red Door

       Book X

       Chapter 1 Gringoire has many Good Ideas in Succession.—Rue des Bernardins

       Chapter 2 Turn Vagabond

       Chapter 3 Long Live Mirth

       Chapter 4 An Awkward Friend

       Chapter 5 The Retreat in which Monsieur Louis of France says his Prayers

       Chapter 6 Little Sword in Pocket

       Chapter 7 Chateaupers to the Rescue

       Book XI

       Chapter 1 The Little Shoe

       Chapter 2 The Beautiful Creature Clad in White. (Dante.)

       Chapter 3 The Marriage of Phoebus

       Chapter 4 The Marriage of Quasimodo

       Note

       Classic Literature: Words and Phrases Adapted from the Collins English Dictionary

       About the Author

       History of Collins

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       PREFACE

      A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about Notre-Dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one of the towers, the following word, engraved by hand upon the wall:—

      ANArKH.

      These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic caligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

      He questioned himself; he sought to divine who could have been that soul in torment which had not been willing to quit this world without leaving this stigma of crime or unhappiness upon the brow of the ancient church.

      Afterwards, the wall was whitewashed or scraped down, I know not which, and the inscription disappeared. For it is thus that people have been in the habit of proceeding with the marvellous churches of the Middle Ages for the last two hundred years. Mutilations come to them from every quarter, from within as well as from without. The priest whitewashes them, the archdeacon scrapes

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