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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: George Guidall
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Quasimodo was born disfigured, hunchbacked and lame, and years spent ringing the bells of the Cathedral of Notre Dame have left him deaf, but also spared him the taunts of the cruel mobs of Paris. Now Quasimodo has fallen in love with the lovely Gypsy girl Esmeralda, the only person who ever showed pity on him - but she faces a death sentence, and only Quasimodo's pure spirit can save her. Or can he?

Translated by Catherine Liu.

Public Domain (P)1991 Recorded Books Classics Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt

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Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame tells the sad-yet-hopeful story of Quasimodo who loved kind Esmeralda to death. This classic example of French gothic literature has inspired numerous adaptations because of its enchanting story and beloved characters. George Guidall gives a performance deserving of Hugo's masterpiece. He effortlessly handles characters' French accents and engages the listener's imagination with well-placed pauses. This audiobook is a cathartic meditation on love and loyalty, enjoyable for every moment of its 22 hours.

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Multidimensional Characters • Gothic Beauty • Historical Depth • Tragic Storytelling • Perfect Voice Casting
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George Guidall is one of my favorite narrators! He knows how to read a story! this and Les Miserables imo are his two best performances! definitely worth a credit!

Great Narration!!

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This is the perfect book. Balanced so well between discourse and history, poetry and story. The characters created in this book have depths so unsearchable that a book of this length can't even begin to reveal them.

Love, loss, and the desire for beauty. This book is my favorite book of the year. I'm not a big reader, I like listening to simple easy books. This book is more complicated than my average book, but also much more profound.

A perfect book

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Get past the first 5 or so hours and you wont be able to put it down. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is all that it should be. Tragic love, gothic beauty and horror and the straddling of the knife's edge between dichotomies that Victor Hugo is so well known for.

just amazing

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Live it to the master to bring the medieval times to one’s reality! What an excruciatingly beautiful and powerful work.
Thank you George Guidall for your warm and compassionate read.

Ah, Hugo!

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Where does The Hunchback of Notre Dame rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Another greatest book in my opinion

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One of my books for meaningful life, Victor Hugo was a great asset to mankind.

Master

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Translation in modern English was interesting. Good story. A few morbid parts. Definitely imaginative. Some parts are quite a stretch.

Humorous and good satire

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Hunchback of Notre Dame speaks for itself as superbly haunting story of man's cruelty and obsession.

However, I really want to emphasize how excellent this narration is in capturing the subtly and uniqueness of all the characters. If you are looking for this story as an audio book, this is undoubtedly the version to get.

Beautiful Narration of a Haunting Story

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I knew it wouldn't be the same as the Disney musical, but I wasn't expecting it to be so vastly different. It was beautiful, tragic, unbelievable. This will stay with me for some time.

So very different from Disney

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I've listened to almost 400 books on audible and this one ranks in my top ten. Beautiful and brilliant. Great performance too. 5/5

A Sublime Masterpiece

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A beautiful story of history and architecture as well as love, tragedy, humanity. I am so glad I finally “read” it.

George guidall great

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