The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victo Hugo
The poet, novelist, and dramatist Victor Hugo was born in 1802, a decade after the end of the French monarchy. He was a child during the dictatorship of N...
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The French author Victor Marie, Vicomte Hugo (1802-1885), was the supreme poet of French romanticism. He is noted for the breadth of his creation, the versatility that made him as much at ease in the ...
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When Victor Hugo died in 1885 at the age of eighty-three, one million mourners gathered in the streets of Paris to see his corpse borne to the Pantheon. Buried with honors usually reserved for heads o...
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No century of French literature has been better represented by a single author than the nineteenth, and no writer better personifies the French nineteenth century than Victor Hugo. His life span corre...
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Victor Hugo, one of France's most prolific nineteenth-century authors, wrote novels, poems, and dramatic works. His career as a playwright began in 1816 and ended almost sixty years later. The dramas ...
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On 22 May 1885 Victor Hugo died, prompting international mourning unprecedented for a literary figure. Within an hour the periodical Gil Blas published a special edition, which sold out everywhere, a...
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Writing good literature is a creative art and, with any creative effort, good tools are absolutely necessary. Figurative or literal, effective use of tools shape a piece to its beauty. Victor Hugo ...
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Culture can best be defined as a way of life or the customs and beliefs of others. Throughout history authors have been known to display their own culture through their novels and other works. Many...
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In the 1939 film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, adapted from the novel written by Victor Hugo, the themes are obvious in numerous scenes of the film; however, in other scenes themes are hidden to eyes ...
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Plot
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a tragic story of love between four ignorant characters. Quasimodo, a deformed, unwanted infant, is left as a foundling in the Notre Dame Cathedral. Archdeacon C...
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This Graphic Novel Series features classic tales retold with attractive color illustrations. Educators using the Dale-Chall vocabulary system adapted each title. Each 70 page, softcover book retain...
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Thirty-five reproducible activities per guide reinforce basic reading and comprehension skills while teaching higher-order critical thinking. Also included are teaching suggestions, background note...
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The British Parliament's lower house on Monday suspended a lawmaker accused of concealing his financial dealings with Saddam Hussein's government.George Galloway, known for his fierce opposition to...
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Rio de Janeiro (dpa) - From the origins of games of chance to the
birth of the Portuguese language to an homage to the Hunchback of
Notre Dame - an array of stories filled t...
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"Les Miserables" is doing a trans-Atlantic switch.John Owens-Jones, who currently stars as the heroic Jean Valjean in the London production of "Les Miserables," will take over the role in the New Y...
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Good-sport superstar Tom Hanks has done his best to detoxify the religious controversies swirling around The Da Vinci Code by appearing on Saturday Night Live to promote the film. When a man in the...
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Good-sport superstar Tom Hanks has done his best to detoxify the religious controversies swirling around The Da Vinci Code by appearing on Saturday Night Live to promote the film. When a man in the...
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