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Toilers of the Sea (French: Les Travailleurs de la mer) is a novel by Victor Hugo published in 1866. The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island community to transmute seemingly mundane events into drama of the highest calibre.
May 12, 2010 · The population of islands like Guernsey is composed of men who have passed their lives in going about their little fields or in sailing round the world. These are the two classes of the labouring people; the labourers on the land, and the toilers of the sea. Mess Lethierry was of the latter class; he had had a life of hard work.
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The toilers of the sea, fishermen and sailors who live on it's shores, live on the boundary of the infinite. Their work is to tempt the gods, to dare break free of the prison imposed by nature on man by the sea.
Sep 10, 2002 · The Toilers of the Sea (Modern Library Classics) Paperback – September 10, 2002. by Victor Hugo (Author), James Hogarth (Translator), Graham Robb (Introduction) 4.3 57 ratings. See all formats and editions.
Complete summary of Victor Hugo's The Toilers of the Sea. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Toilers of the Sea.
Dec 18, 2007 · Kindle Edition. 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.
- Victor Hugo
