The tale of the hunchback bellringer of medieval Notre Dame, Quasimodo, whose love for the gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, had tragic consequences.
With illustrations of the author and the background of the story and reproductions of drawings for early editions of the book together with an introduction and descriptive captions by Curtis Dahl.
In 1482, Quasimodo, a hunchback, mingles with the innocent Esmeralda and her antithesis, Claude Frollo.