Author(s): Victor Hugo
One of the great literary tragedies of all time, The Hunchback of Notre Dame features some of the most well-known characters in all of fiction – Quasimodo, the hideously deformed bell-ringer of Notre-Dame de Paris, his master the evil priest Claude Frollo, and Esmeralda, the beautiful gypsy condemned for a crime she did not commit. (Summary by Mark Nelson)