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Toilers of the Sea (Version 2) by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

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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 st...

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Chapter IX - Success snatched away as soon as granted 21.01.2025 4:05

Chapter VIII - Change rather than Conclusion 21.01.2025 8:49

Chapter VI - The Interior of an Abyss Illuminated 21.01.2025 21:00

Chapter IX - The Reef, and the Manner of Using it 21.01.2025 8:01

Chapter IV - In which Captain Clubin displays all his Qualities 21.01.2025 12:59

Chapter II - The Thoroughness of the Disaster 21.01.2025 7:20

Chapter XIII - What one sees there, and what one gets a Glimpse of 21.01.2025 14:53

Book Second - Labor - Chapter I - The Resources of one who lacks Everything 21.01.2025 7:03

Chapter V - Sub Umbra 21.01.2025 16:50

Chapter XI - A Discovery 21.01.2025 10:20

Chapter V - The Bird-Nesters 21.01.2025 22:08

Chapter V - Well-Merited Success is always Hated 21.01.2025 3:30

Chapter IV - Sub Re 21.01.2025 15:42

Chapter V - A Word as to the Secret Cooperation of the Elements 21.01.2025 10:22

Volume II - Part Two - Gilliatt The Crafty - Book First - The Reef - Chapter I - The Place which it is Hard to Reach and Difficult to Leave 21.01.2025 13:24

Chapter VI - Gilliatt brings the Paunch into Position 21.01.2025 6:32

Chapter III - Gilliatt's Masterpiece comes to the succor of Lethierry's Masterpiece 21.01.2025 9:10

Chapter V - Clubin puts the Finishing Touch to Admiration 21.01.2025 9:36

Chapter II - Clubin perceives some one 21.01.2025 5:58

Chapter VIII - Importunaeque Volucres 21.01.2025 5:36

Chapter II - Much Astonishment on the Western Coast 21.01.2025 11:20

Chapter IV - A Preliminary Exmination 21.01.2025 7:20

Chapter II - How Shakespeare and Aeschylus can meet 21.01.2025 4:43

Chapter IV - A Nocturnal Serenade 21.01.2025 5:21

Chapter III - Sound but not Safe 21.01.2025 3:55