Notre-Dame de Paris

Bedtime Reading No.23 in 5000 English Words: Notre Dame de Paris is the first large-scale romantic novel created by French writer Hugo, and is also a romantic masterpiece in the history of world literature. Set in Paris in the 15th century, it tells a tragic story of a gypsy girl Esmeralda, the incarnation of love and beauty, who died of the persecution by priests and nobles, and also describes a noble and pure spiritual world of the bellman Quasimodo with ugly face and kind heart. The work exposes the hypocrisy of religion, declares the bankruptcy of asceticism, and praises the friendliness of the working people from the lower classes, reflecting Hugo’s humanitarianism.