The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)

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Summary: One Of the Best Books Ever!
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. Quasimodo is one of the most tragic figures of all time. Hugo gains our sympathy for him at the start when a band of gypsies steal a baby and leave the deformed Quasimodo in his place. The shocked family abandon the "hideous monster." The baby ends up in the church of Notre Dame where he is raised by the priests.

He later ends up saving the gypsy Esmeralda (who ironically turns out to the baby he was switched for) from the hangman in one of the most dramatic rescue sequences in literary history. He and Esmeralda seem to have their lives intertwined throughout the book.