3.5
Toilers of the Sea
by Victor Hugo
Mess Lethierry est propriétaire de La Durande, un steamer échoué sur un écueil par la machination criminelle de son capitaine, le sieur Clubin. Fou de rage à l'idée que le moteur révolutionnaire de son steamer soit définitivement perdu, Lethierry promet de donner la main de sa nièce Déruchette à celui qui récupèrera la machine de l'épave coincée entre les deux rochers de l'écueil Douvres au large de Guernesey. Gilliatt, pêcheur aussi robuste que rêveur, mais surtout épris de Déruchette, accepte le défi. Après maintes péripéties, notamment sa lutte contre les éléments et la pieuvre, Gilliatt réussit sa mission.
19th century fictionModern fictionFiction
RELEASED1991
PUBLISHERSutton Pub Ltd
LENGTH384
LANGUAGEEN
Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (known in English also as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). Though a committed conservative royalist when he was young, Hugo grew more liberal as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo
3.5
Toilers of the Sea
by Victor Hugo
Mess Lethierry est propriétaire de La Durande, un steamer échoué sur un écueil par la machination criminelle de son capitaine, le sieur Clubin. Fou de rage à l'idée que le moteur révolutionnaire de son steamer soit définitivement perdu, Lethierry promet de donner la main de sa nièce Déruchette à celui qui récupèrera la machine de l'épave coincée entre les deux rochers de l'écueil Douvres au large de Guernesey. Gilliatt, pêcheur aussi robuste que rêveur, mais surtout épris de Déruchette, accepte le défi. Après maintes péripéties, notamment sa lutte contre les éléments et la pieuvre, Gilliatt réussit sa mission.
19th century fictionModern fictionFiction
RELEASED1991
PUBLISHERSutton Pub Ltd
LENGTH384
LANGUAGEEN
Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (known in English also as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). Though a committed conservative royalist when he was young, Hugo grew more liberal as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo
