Translation of an early eleventh-century novel about the life of Japanese nobleman Genji, the son of an emperor who finds himself falling in love with women who remind him of the mother he lost in his youth.
In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.
An adaptation of Victor Hugo's story in which Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral in medieval Paris, struggles to save the gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.
Photographs and illustrations examine ten of the world's most tragic romances including Charles and Diana, Bonnie and Clyde, Romeo and Juliet, and Narcissus and Echo.
