Description
A classic tale of secret identities and swashbuckling vengeance stretching across decades, The Hunchback has thrilled readers since it first came out in 1857. Dashing young swordsman Henri de Lagard�re vows justice for the treacherous murder of his friend, the Duke of Nevers, but first he has to raise Nevers’s beautiful daughter Aurore as his own child — and protect her from the same powerful villains who killed her father.
Regency Paris in the early 1700s is a time of debauched courtesans and dueling swordsmen. And among those, no one is more feared than the outlaw Lagard�re, who alone knows the secret of the Nevers attack — a fencing move that kills by striking right between the eyes!
Paul F�val’s swashbuckling classic is as well-known and beloved in France as Dumas’s Three Musketeers and has been adapted more than a dozen times for cinema and television. This is the first time it is presented in English in a complete and unabridged translation.
This book also includes a bibliography, a filmography and an overview of the eight prequels and sequels written by Paul F�val’s son.
