The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, credited to Victor Hugo, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo. Read by Mark Nelson. One of the great literary tragedies of all time, The Hunchback of Notre Dame features some of the most well-known characters in all of fiction - Quasimodo, the hideously deformed bellringer of Notre-Dame de Paris, his master the evil priest Claude Frollo, and Esmeralda, the beautiful gypsy condemned for a crime she did not commit. (Summary by Mark Nelson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Author credits: Victor Hugo
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 61
• Listed recording duration: 21:50:33

Catalogue topics

• classics
• Quasimodo
• Esmeralda

Opening tracks: first 24 of 61

1. 01 - Preface and Book 1: I - The Grand Hall — 39:35
2. 02 - Book 1: II - Pierre Gringoire — 23:38
3. 03 - Book 1: III - Monsieur the Cardinal — 17:47
4. 04 - Book 1: IV - Master Jacques Coppenole — 23:04
5. 05 - Book 1: V - Quasimodo — 17:36
6. 06 - Book 1: VI - Esmeralda — 5:36
7. 07 - Book 2: I - From Charybdis to Scylla — 7:01
8. 08 - Book 2: II - The Place de Grave — 6:19
9. 09 - Book 2: III - Kisses for Blows — 26:12
10. 10 - Book 2: IV - The Inconvenience of Following a Pretty Woman through the Streets in the Evening — 11:17
11. 11 - Book 2: V - Result of the Dangers — 5:40
12. 12 - Book 2: VI - The Broken Jug — 48:12
13. 13 - Book 2: VII - A Bridal Night — 23:45
14. 14 - Book 3: I - Notre-Dame — 22:51
15. 15 - Book 3: II - A Bird's-eye View of Paris — 1:06:35
16. 16 - Book 4: I - Good Souls — 9:12
17. 17 - Book 4: II - Claude Frollo — 13:28
18. 18 - Book 4: III - Immanis Pecoris Custos, Immanior Ipse — 20:40
19. 19 - Book 4: IV - The Dog and his Master — 3:25
20. 20 - Book 4: V - More about Claude Frollo — 17:56
21. 21 - Book 4: VI - Unpopularity — 2:26
22. 22 - Book 5: I - Abbas Beati Martini — 27:20
23. 23 - Book 5: II - This will Kill That — 41:41
24. 24 - Book 6: I - An Impartial Glance at the Ancient Magistracy — 29:03

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