Track Book / Chapter Duration
1 Preface and Book 1: I - The Grand Hall 39:14
2 Book 1: II - Pierre Gringoire 23:30
3 Book 1: III - Monsieur the Cardinal 17:40
4 Book 1: IV - Master Jacques Coppenole 22:54
5 Book 1: V - Quasimodo 17:29
6 Book 1: VI - Esmeralda 5:36
7 Book 2: I - From Charybdis to Scylla 6:59
8 Book 2: II - The Place de Grave 6:15
9 Book 2: III - Kisses for Blows 26:10
10 Book 2: IV - The Inconvenience of Following a Pretty Woman through the Streets in the Evening 11:13
11 Book 2: V - Result of the Dangers 5:38
12 Book 2: VI - The Broken Jug 47:55
13 Book 2: VII - A Bridal Night 23:33
14 Book 3: I - Notre-Dame 22:52
15 Book 3: II - A Bird's-eye View of Paris 1:06:35
16 Book 4: I - Good Souls 9:12
17 Book 4: II - Claude Frollo 13:28
18 Book 4: III - Immanis Pecoris Custos Immanior Ipse 20:33
19 Book 4: IV - The Dog and his Master 3:25
20 Book 4: V - More about Claude Frollo 17:56
21 Book 4: VI - Unpopularity 2:27
22 Book 5: I - Abbas Beati Martini 27:20
23 Book 5: II - This will Kill That 41:41
24 Book 6: I - An Impartial Glance at the Ancient Magistracy 29:03
25 Book 6: II - The Rat-Hole 10:57
26 Book 6: III - History of a Leavened Cake of Maize 54:01
27 Book 6: IV - A Tear for a Drop of Water 24:23
28 Book 6: V - End of the Story of the Cake 2:05
29 Book 7: I - The Danger of Confiding One's Secret to a Goat 36:54
30 Book 7: II - A Priest and a Philosopher are two Different Things 22:54
31 Book 7: III - The Bells 6:19
32 Book 7: IV - ~ANArKH~ 36:05
33 Book 7: V - The Two Men Clothed in Black 15:16
34 Book 7: VI - The Effect which Seven Oaths in the Open Air can Produce 10:49
35 Book 7: VII - The Mysterious Monk 20:33
36 Book 7: VIII - The Utility of Windows which Open on the River 21:22
37 Book 8: I - The Crown Changed into a Dry Leaf 24:17
38 Book 8: II - Continuation of the Crown which was Changed into a DryLeaf 13:00
39 Book 8: III - End of the Crown which was Changed into a Dry Leaf 8:41
40 Book 8: IV - ~Lasciate Ogni Speranza~ Leave all hope behind ye who Enter here 39:07
41 Book 8: V - The Mother 13:27
42 Book 8: VI - Three Human Hearts differently Constructed 43:43
43 Book 9: I - Delirium 29:10
44 Book 9: II - Hunchbacked One Eyed Lame 10:10
45 Book 9: III - Deaf 7:41
46 Book 9: IV - Earthenware and Crystal 28:23
47 Book 9: V - The Key to the Red Door 5:28
48 Book 9: VI - Continuation of the Key to the Red Door 7:46
49 Book 10: I - Gringoire has Many Good Ideas in Succession. Rue des Bernardins 25:38
50 Book 10: II - Turn Vagabond 5:26
51 Book 10: III - Long Live Mirth 20:11
52 Book 10: IV - An Awkward Friend 48:38
53 Book 10: V-1 - The Retreat in which Monsieur Louis of France says his Prayers 52:23
54 Book 10: V-2 - The Retreat in which Monsieur Louis of France says his Prayers 25:43
55 Book 10: VI - Little Sword in Pocket 2:26
56 Book 10: VII - Chateaupers to the Rescue 5:12
57 Book 11: I-1 - The Little Shoe 35:41
58 Book 11: I-2 - The Little Shoe 51:39
59 Book 11: II - The Beautiful Creature Clad in White 23:27
60 Book 11: III - The Marriage of Phoebus 2:23
61 Book 11: IV - The Marriage of Quasimodo 5:39

Production

Read by: Mark Nelson
Book Coordinator: Mark Nelson
Meta Coordinator: Sarah Jennings
Proof Listener: Shelach

Artwork

Cover: Illustration of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, 1881, by Luc-Olivier Merson (1846-1920)
Inset: Esmeralda gives Quasimodo drink on the pillory. Oil on canvas by Luc-Olivier Merson, 1903.
Inset: Photo of Victor Hugo, 1884, by Nadar


Hunchbacks. We stare. We cringe. We shudder. We think: the poor guy; glad that’s not me. Whether we’ve read, heard of, or have seen The Hunchback of Notre-Dame in one of its many adaptations, the ineluctable image of the “monster with a good heart” is a window on a life not tethered to concerns of fashion, status, and power. Victor Hugo liked to turn the world on its head, much as the Parables of Jesus do. Appearance, be it physical, social, or the unquestioned acceptance of the unexamined priest, ultimately misleads. Things aren't what they seem. Good turns out to be bad. Bad turns out to be good. On another level Hugo posits the inevitable conflict between the order imposed from above to placate angry gods (or God), with its concomitant benefits of power and position, versus those troublesome urges within that are not only part and parcel of life, but the very flowering of life itself. It’s hard to imagine a God who doesn’t need an army of arrogant, power-based, celibate men to keep the rabble in check. He doesn’t. And here, it’s the monstrous Quasimodo, who elevates lust to love, who shows that allowing the human to be human (as we allow “monsters” considerable freedom to be themselves) will yield an order that doesn’t require the strictures of church or state. Love, which is life, is holy, the substance of our best selves, as fully present in the babe as in the adult, no matter his or her appearance or conventional wisdom concerning same.   


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Item Info
EAN - DVD case 0682550991092
EAN - CD jacket 0682550991498
Media MP3 CD
Package DVD Case
Author Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Translator Isabel Florence Hapgood (1851-1928)
Year 1831
Recording
Read by Mark Nelson
Length 21 hours and 46 minutes
Type of Reading Solo

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

  • Author: Victor Hugo
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