NOVELS SHORT STORIES
POETRY CHILDREN'S BOOKS

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
— 1831 —

Table of Contents

PREFACE.

BOOK FIRST.

  1. THE GRAND HALL.
  2. PIERRE GRINGOIRE.
  3. MONSIEUR THE CARDINAL.
  4. MASTER JACQUES COPPENOLE.
  5. QUASIMODO.
  6. ESMERALDA.

BOOK SECOND.

  1. FROM CHARYBDIS TO SCYLLA.
  2. THE PLACE DE GREVE.
  3. KISSES FOR BLOWS.
  4. THE INCONVENIENCES OF FOLLOWING A PRETTY WOMAN THROUGH THE STREETS IN THE EVENING.
  5. RESULT OF THE DANGERS.
  6. THE BROKEN JUG.
  7. A BRIDAL NIGHT.

BOOK THIRD.

  1. NOTRE-DAME.
  2. A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF PARIS.

BOOK FOURTH.

  1. GOOD SOULS.
  2. CLAUDE FROLLO.
  3. IMMANIS PECORIS CUSTOS, IMMANIOR IPSE.
  4. THE DOG AND HIS MASTER.
  5. MORE ABOUT CLAUDE FROLLO.
  6. UNPOPULARITY.

BOOK FIFTH.

  1. ABBAS BEATI MARTINI.
  2. THIS WILL KILL THAT.

BOOK SIXTH.

  1. AN IMPARTIAL GLANCE AT THE ANCIENT MAGISTRACY.
  2. HISTORY OF A LEAVENED CAKE OF MAIZE.
  3. A TEAR FOR A DROP OF WATER.
  4. END OF THE STORY OF THE CAKE.

BOOK SEVENTH.

  1. THE DANGER OF CONFIDING ONE’S SECRET TO A GOAT.
  2. A PRIEST AND A PHILOSOPHER ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.
  3. THE BELLS.
  4. ANArKH.
  5. THE TWO MEN CLOTHED IN BLACK.
  6. THE EFFECT WHICH SEVEN OATHS IN THE OPEN AIR CAN PRODUCE.
  7. THE MYSTERIOUS MONK.
  8. THE UTILITY OF WINDOWS WHICH OPEN ON THE RIVER.

BOOK EIGHTH.

  1. THE CROWN CHANGED INTO A DRY LEAF.
  2. CONTINUATION OF THE CROWN WHICH WAS CHANGED INTO A DRY LEAF.
  3. END OF THE CROWN WHICH WAS TURNED INTO A DRY LEAF.
  4. LASCIATE OGNI SPERANZA—LEAVE ALL HOPE BEHIND, YE WHO ENTER HERE.
  5. THE MOTHER.
  6. THREE HUMAN HEARTS DIFFERENTLY CONSTRUCTED.

BOOK NINTH.

  1. DELIRIUM.
  2. HUNCHBACKED, ONE EYED, LAME.
  3. DEAF.
  4. EARTHENWARE AND CRYSTAL.
  5. THE KEY TO THE RED DOOR.
  6. CONTINUATION OF THE KEY TO THE RED DOOR.

BOOK TENTH.

  1. GRINGOIRE HAS MANY GOOD IDEAS IN SUCCESSION.—RUE DES BERNARDINS.
  2. TURN VAGABOND.
  3. LONG LIVE MIRTH.
  4. AN AWKWARD FRIEND.
  5. THE RETREAT IN WHICH MONSIEUR LOUIS OF FRANCE SAYS HIS PRAYERS.
  6. LITTLE SWORD IN POCKET.
  7. CHATEAUPERS TO THE RESCUE.

BOOK ELEVENTH.

  1. THE LITTLE SHOE.
  2. THE BEAUTIFUL CREATURE CLAD IN WHITE. (Dante.)
  3. THE MARRIAGE OF PHOEBUS.
  4. THE MARRIAGE OF QUASIMODO.

NOTE ADDED TO THE DEFINITIVE EDITION.