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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame — Modern Edition

Paris, January 6, 1482. On the day the whole city crowds into the Palace of Justice for the Festival of Fools, the poet Pierre Gringoire stakes his future on a play nobody will listen to. A cardinal, a craftsman proud of his hands, a cruel crowd — and Quasimodo, the bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, crowned king for a day by those who laugh at him. Victor Hugo's masterpiece, retold in simple modern English.