Paul Feval, a French writer, author of popular adventure novels, enjoyed enormous fame during his lifetime, comparable to the fame of Dumas and Balzac. His novels “cloak and sword”, thanks to the extraordinary plots and inexhaustible imagination of the author, went through dozens of reprints and were translated into many languages of the world. This volume includes Feval’s most famous novel about the adventures of the invincible Chevalier de Lagardère, “The Hunchback, or the Little Parisian.” The reader will find here all the necessary features of an exciting adventure novel: a dynamic narrative, mysterious transformations, brutal fights, court intrigues and, of course, love affairs. The text of the novel is accompanied by numerous illustrations from the original French editions of the 19th century.