These polite little interjections to the reader were quite fun. Let me endeavour to reproduce the impression made on his senses as we struggle through the surging crowd in frock, smock, jerkin, doublet, and every conceivable dress of the period. “If the reader consent, we shall cross the threshold of the Great Hall together. It felt like it was a ye olde elegant noble person leading the reader through the story with the occasional breaks of: The voice of the book, or the tone of the narrator was something I found very charming. So it took me a while to trudge through what a normal-sized copy would be over 900 pages. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a long and Victor Hugo was clearly paid by the word. What I forgot when I forged ahead was that my edition being a small pretty book meant it was longer than it appeared. I enjoyed The Phantom of the Opera and The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favorite books. I picked this as the next book to read off my shelf because I wanted a change and I figured old French novels are sometimes a good palette cleanser.
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