Like many, my only exposure to The Hunchback of Notre Dame has been through TV caricatures and the Disney version. Forever distrustful of the Mouse Ears, I didn't know what to expect while reading the real deal. Victor Hugo is an awesome storyteller. While perhaps he could be guilty of rambling ...

The Theme of Fate in Victor Hugo's "Hunchback of Notre Dame" Whenever one looks in the nineteenth century, there is Victor Hugo, the French dramatist and novelist, and the revolutionary socialist. His father was a general in Napoleon's army and, as a result, Hugo was never a s...