The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Introduction Essay
In the following introduction, McCracken discusses the strengths of the novel as great literature.
For a moment, let us forget Quasimodo.
You know him already, of course. He is one of the most famous fictional characters of all time, a creation so indelibly described that—even if you have never seen an illustration, on paper or canvas or celluloid— you would recognize him walking down the street. Like Hugo, I “shall not attempt to give the reader any idea of that tetrahedron nose, of that horseshoe mouth, of that little left eye, obscured by a bristly red eyebrow, while the right was completely overwhelmed and buried by an enormous wart; of those irregular teeth, jagged...
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