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Toilers of the Sea: a summary. Above: The haunted house at Pleinmont that features in Toilers of the Sea. Toilers of the Sea tells the story of Gilliatt, who lives in the Bû de la Rue, a decrepit house in St Sampson. He arrived on Guernsey as a small boy, brought there by his mother, but where she came from nobody knows.
A sort of sombre demon of the water. All these magnificences had horror for their centre. A month previously, on the day when, for the first time, Gilliatt had made his way into the grotto, the dark outline of which he had caught a glimpse in the ripples of the water was this octopus. This was its home.
Summary. The shy, reclusive Gilliatt and his mother arrive on the Isle of Guernsey. From where they came, no one knows. They settle in an isolated house by the shore. The mother dies when Gilliatt ...
10 de sept. de 2002 · Hugo’s writing style in The Toilers of the Sea is that of a meticulous literary master and not a mere storyteller. Because of his political activism against Louis-Napoleon, Hugo fled France in 1851 and “spent the next nineteen years in exile, most of them in the Channel Islands, first on Jersey and then on Guernsey” according to Robb ...
16 de feb. de 2017 · Toilers of the Sea. Gilliatt, a Guernseyman and social pariah, falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner called Mess Lethierry. After Lethierry's ship is destroyed on a dangerous reef, Deruchette commits to marry whoever can return with the ship's engine. Gilliatt nominates himself, and the story follows his physical ...
19 de may. de 2009 · The toilers of the sea by Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885; Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928, tr. Publication date 1961 Publisher New York, Heritage Press Collection
Title: The Toilers of the Sea. Artist: Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, New Bedford, Massachusetts 1847–1917 Elmhurst, New York) Date: ca. 1880–85. Culture: American. Medium: Oil on wood. Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 12 in. (29.2 x 30.5 cm) Credit Line: George A. Hearn Fund, 1915. Accession Number: 15.32
