ABSTRACT
First published in The True Sun, 12 November 1833, p. 3; see headnote above, pp. 229–30. Victor Hugo (1802–85), French poet, dramatist and novelist, published Notre-Dame de Paris in 1831. Notre-Dame; a tale of the ‘Ancient Régime’ appeared in three volumes in 1833, translated by William Hazlitt the Younger (1811–93), and published by Effingham Wilson (1783–1868; DNB). The present review, however, concerns The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, a one-volume version that also appeared in 1833, translated by Frederick Shoberl (1775–1853; DNB), and published by Richard Bentley.
