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Hugo is long winded and I'm thinking I would love abridged versions of his novels. It takes plenty of skim reading to find the story within his writing. The stories are marvelous -- the plight of those trodden upon. But getting to the story can be a chore sometimes.
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Bought this edition in Paris after visiting Norte-Dame 5 months ago (11/2018).
This was probably the first adult, European fiction that I read on my own, at about 13 y.o. and I loved it, hence the 5 stars. Esmeralda's story fascinated me, and for Quasimodo I felt her mixture of repulsion and pity. Of course, this reading was colored by the wonderful Charles Laughton film, a favorite.
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