Les contes drôlatiques vs Notre Dame de Paris: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Les contes drôlatiques Les contes drôlatiques Honoré de Balzac · 1855 ★★★★☆ 3.8 557 pages · ≈ 10 h 19 m · Challenging

A collection of stories with a mediaeval theme rather after the style of Rabelais. Early editions were illustrated by Gustav Dore and were published by Garnier Freres of Paris. The stories range from the absurd to the…

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Cover of Notre Dame de Paris Notre Dame de Paris Victor Hugo · 1831 ★★★★☆ 4.0 409 pages · ≈ 7 h 34 m · Challenging

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…

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Les contes drôlatiquesNotre Dame de Paris
Goodreads — 4.0 (224399)

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Les contes drôlatiquesNotre Dame de Paris
Ratings 2 224399
Editions 140 265
Film adaptations — 1
Want to read — 272359
Written reviews — 10083
Wikipedia attention — 53026
Pages 557 409

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