In medieval Paris the deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo, the archdeacon Frollo, and the gypsy Esmeralda are bound in tragedy around the great cathedral. A gothic romance and a hymn to the city and its architecture.
Books mentioned in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (6)
Candide by Voltaire: “Fortunately, Voltaire was the author of "Candide" in spite of this”
Le Cid by Pierre Corneille: “The author of the "Cid" could not have said "Pierre Corneille" with more pride.”
Inferno by Dante Alighieri: “Dante could never imagine anything better for his hell.”
Dialogus de Energia et Operatione Daemonum by Michael Psellus: “Master Jacques read Michel Psellus' '_Dialogus de Energia et Operatione Dæmonum_.' What we are doing is not wholly innocent.”
Adversus Avaritiam by Salvian of Marseille: “He ought to read the four books of Salvien of Cologne, _Adversus Avaritiam_.”
Sentences by Peter Lombard: “'Tis a book of Pierre Lombard, the Master of Sentences. Is it because it is printed?”
Books that mention The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (8)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: “She declared she adored children; this was her consolation, her joy, her passion, and she accompanied her caresses with lyrical outburst which would have reminded anyone but the Yonville people of Sachette in "Notre Dame de Paris."”
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: “In Victor Hugo’s _Notre Dame de Paris_ an edifying and gratuitous spectacle was provided for the people in the Hôtel de Ville of Paris”
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy: “read the French masterpieces and understand them: _Notre Dame de Paris_, for instance, is sure to please her.”
The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy: “Words taken from Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame," where he says that printing will kill architecture.--AUTHOR.”
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust: “of pine-forests or of hailstorms, of _Notre-Dame de Paris_, of _Athalie_, or of _Phèdre_, by some piece of imagery he would make their beauty explode”
Peter Ibbetson by George du Maurier: “So sang the old hag in _Notre Dame de Paris!”
The Art of Fiction by Ayn Rand: “"What I have so far described of Notre-Dame de Paris is not the plot, but the plot-theme." — plus a full excerpt ("From Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo [translated by Ayn Rand]").”
Vita Sexualis by Mori Ōgai: “When I read Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre Dame) and came across the little girl with the jewel-like name of Emeraude, I remembered that girl in Kanda dancing the kappore under the umbrella, and thought she must have been much the same sort of creature. [auto-translated]”