Toilers of the Sea (Version 2)
Gelesen von John Greenman
Victor Hugo
(3,8 Sterne; 5 Bewertungen)
The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Victor Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island community to convert seemingly mundane events into drama of the highest caliber. Set just after the Napoleonic Wars, Toilers of the Sea deals with the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the island. The story concerns a Guernseyman named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner, Mess Lethierry. When Lethierry's ship is wrecked on a perilous reef, Deruchette promises to marry whoever can salvage the ship's steam engine. Gilliatt eagerly volunteers, and the story follows his physical trials and tribulations, as well as the undeserved disapproval of his neighbors.
This is a recording of the Isabel Hapgood translation, long considered the best of early translations of the work. - Summary by John Greenman (17 hr 4 min)
Chapters
Book First - What a Bad Reputation is Composed of - Chapter I - A Word Written …
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Book Second - Mess Lethierry - Chapter I - A Restless Life and a Quiet Conscien…
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Book Fourth - The Bagpipe - Chaprer I - The First Gleams of Dawn, or a Conflagr…
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Book Fifth - The Revolver - Chapter I - The Conversation at the Jean Tavern
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Chapter IX - Information Useful to Persons who await or who fear Letters from A…
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Book Sixth - The Drunken Helmsman and the Sober Captain - Chapter I - The Douvr…
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Book Seventh - The Imprudence of asking Questions of a. Book - Chapter I - The …
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Volume II - Part Two - Gilliatt The Crafty - Book First - The Reef - Chapter I …
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Book Second - Labor - Chapter I - The Resources of one who lacks Everything
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Chapter III - Gilliatt's Masterpiece comes to the succor of Lethierry's Masterp…
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Book Four - The Pitfalls of the Obstacle - Chapter I - A Man who is Hungry is n…
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Chapter V - In the Interval which Separates Six Inches from Two Feet there is R…
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Part Third - Déruchette - Book First - Night and Morn - Chapter I - The Bell of…
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Book Second - Gratitude in Full Despotism - Chapter I - Joy Surrounded by Angui…
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Book Third - Departure of the "Cashmere" - Chapter I - The Havelet quite close …
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Bewertungen
a tragic hero
Cy Collins
(4 Sterne)
amazing book I think it's a wonderful period piece displaying the culture of that shore of the strait and setting up an exemplary tragic hero
Very sad story
(4 Sterne)
much more tragic than the hunchback of notre-dame - reading is fine but technically poor as the volume is too low
A Great Story
Himmer
(5 Sterne)
Full of passion and unique characters. I fell in love (again) with the sea and its people. We'll read too.
Not what I expected
Joy Breward
(1 Sterne)
Too many references to superstitions of ignorant folk!