Toilers of the Sea
Victor Hugo
Subjects: Channel Islands -- Fiction, Guernsey (Channel Islands) -- Fiction, Sailors -- Fiction, Fishers -- Fiction, French fiction -- 19th century, PQ, I
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Subjects: Channel Islands -- Fiction, Guernsey (Channel Islands) -- Fiction, Sailors -- Fiction, Fishers -- Fiction, French fiction -- 19th century, PQ, I
Downloads: 557
"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 the Roches Douvres, a perilous reef, Deruchette promises to marry whomever can salvage the ship's steam engine. Gilliatt eagerly volunteers, and the story follows both his physical trials and tribulations (which includes a battle with an octopus), as well as the undeserved opprobrium of his neighbours"--Wikipedia.
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