A new translation by Scot James Hogarth for the first unabridged English edition of the novel, which tells the story of an illiterate fisherman from the Channel Islands who must free a ship that has run aground in order to win the hand of the woman he loves, a shipowner's daughter...
"No character was ever thrown into such strange relief as Gilliatt... here, indeed, the true position of man in the universe." --Robert Louis Stevenson The Toilers of the Sea tells the fairytale-esque story of Gilliatt, an outcast fisherman who must rescue...
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In a small island community a young reclusive fisherman falls dangerously in love with a beautiful local girl. Her uncle, himself an intrepid seaman, owns a paddle-steamer which plies its trade to and from St Malo on the coast of Brittany. The vessel is wrecked on a remote reef...
La christmas de 182... fut remarquable ? Guernesey. Il neigea ce jour-l?. Dans les ?les de la Manche, un hiver o? il g?le ? glace est m?morable, et la neige fait ?v?nement.
Mess Lethierry est propri taire de La Durande, un steamer chou sur un cueil par la machination criminelle de son capitaine, le sieur Clubin. Fou de rage l'id e que le moteur r volutionnaire de son steamer soit d finitivement perdu, Lethierry promet de donner la main de sa...
Gilliatt, jeune homme extr mement discret, va braver les l ments pour tenter de sauver la Durande, seul bateau moteur reliant Guernesey Saint Malo afin de conqu rir l' lue de son coeur: D ruchette. L'hommage par Victor Hugo l'effort, l'ing niosit , au d vouement par...
Toilers of the Sea (1866) is a novel by Victor Hugo. Written while Hugo was living in exile on the island of Guernsey, Toilers of the Sea is a story of adventure that expresses the everyday struggles of a fool in love while capturing the changes wrought by political...
Toilers of the Sea (1866) is a novel by Victor Hugo. Written while Hugo was living in exile on the island of Guernsey, Toilers of the Sea is a story of adventure that expresses the everyday struggles of a fool in love while capturing the changes wrought by political...
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