Amazon.com description: Product Description: Victor Hugo was a playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, visual artist and human rights activist. He was influential in the Romantic Movement in France. Hugo is best known for his Hunchback of Notre Dame. The man's face was disfigured since childhood thus he always looked like he was laughing. The girl who gives him her loyalty was blind. The aristocracy of the town made him their laughing stock. This novel is an in depth study into human insight and a look into the historical era and its mindset.