Toilers of the Sea (Version 2)

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Published 1800 -1900, Nautical & Marine Fiction, Romance, Culture & Heritage Fiction

Authors: Victor Hugo In Year : 1888

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Toilers of the Sea (Version 2)

Volume I - Dedication & Preface
Book First - What a Bad Reputation is Composed of - Chapter I - A Word Written on a Blank Page
Chaptef II - The Bû de la Rue
Chapter III - For your Wife when you Marry
Chapter IV - Unpopularity
Chapter V - Other Suspicious Things about Gilliatt
Chapter VI - The Paunch Boat
Chapter VII - For a Haunted House, a Visionary Inhabitant
Chapter VIII - The Chair of Gild-Holm-'Ur
Book Second - Mess Lethierry - Chapter I - A Restless Life and a Quiet Conscience
Chapter II - A Taste which he had
Chapter III - The Ancient Dialect of the Sea
Chapter IV - One is Vulnerable through what one Loves
Book Third - Durande and Déruchette - Chapter I - Chatter and Smoke
Chapter II - The Eternal History of Utopia
Chapter III - Rantaine
Chapter IV - Continuation of the History of Utopia
Chapter V - The Devil-Boat
Chapter VI - Entrance of Lethierry into Glory
Chapter VII - The same Godfather and the same Protectress
Chapter VIII - "Bonny Dundee"
Chapter IX - The Man who had seen through Rantaine
Chapter X - Tales of Long Voyages
Chapter XI - A Glance at Possible Husbands
Chapter XII - An Exception in the Character of Lethierry
Chapter XIII - Heedlessness adds New Grace to Beauty
Book Fourth - The Bagpipe - Chaprer I - The First Gleams of Dawn, or a Conflagration
Chapter II - An Entrance, Step by Step, into the Unknown
Chapter III - The Air "Bonny Dundee" finds an Echo on the Hill
Chapter IV - A Nocturnal Serenade
Chapter V - Well-Merited Success is always Hated
Chapter VI - The Luck of a Shipwrecked Crew in meeting a Sloop
Book Fifth - The Revolver - Chapter I - The Conversation at the Jean Tavern
Chapter II - Clubin perceives some one
Chapter III - Clubin Carries Away and does not Bring Back
Chapter IV - Plainmont
Chapter V - The Bird-Nesters
Chapter VI - The Jacressarde
Chapter VII - Nocturnal Purchasers and a Shady Vendor
Chapter VIII - The Red Ball and the Black Ball Carom
Chapter IX - Information Useful to Persons who await or who fear Letters from Across the Sea
Book Sixth - The Drunken Helmsman and the Sober Captain - Chapter I - The Douvres Rocks
Chapter II - Unexpected Brandy
Chapter III - Interrupted Conversations
Chapter IV - In which Captain Clubin displays all his Qualities
Chapter V - Clubin puts the Finishing Touch to Admiration
Chapter VI - The Interior of an Abyss Illuminated
Chapter VII - The Unexpected intervenes
Book Seventh - The Imprudence of asking Questions of a. Book - Chapter I - The Pearl at the Bottom of the Precipice
Chapter II - Much Astonishment on the Western Coast
Chapter III - Tempt not the Bible
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
Chapter II - The Thoroughness of the Disaster
Chapter III - Sound but not Safe
Chapter IV - A Preliminary Exmination
Chapter V - A Word as to the Secret Cooperation of the Elements
Chapter VI - A Stable for the Horse
Chapter VII - A Chamber for the Traveller
Chapter VIII - Importunaeque Volucres
Chapter IX - The Reef, and the Manner of Using it
Chapter X - The Forge
Chapter XI - A Discovery
Chapter XII - The Interior of a Submarine Edifice
Chapter XIII - What one sees there, and what one gets a Glimpse of
Book Second - Labor - Chapter I - The Resources of one who lacks Everything
Chapter II - How Shakespeare and Aeschylus can meet
Chapter III - Gilliatt's Masterpiece comes to the succor of Lethierry's Masterpiece
Chapter IV - Sub Re
Chapter V - Sub Umbra
Chapter VI - Gilliatt brings the Paunch into Position
Chapter VII - A Danger at Once
Chapter VIII - Change rather than Conclusion
Chapter IX - Success snatched away as soon as granted
Chapter X - The Warnings of the Sea
Chapter XI - A Word to the Wise is Sufficient
Book Third - The Battle - Chapter I - Extremes Meet
Chapter II - Sea Breezes
Chapter III - Explanation of the Noise to which Gilliatt Listened
Chapter IV - Turba, Turma
Chapter V - Gilliatt has his Choice
Chapter VI - The Combat
Book Four - The Pitfalls of the Obstacle - Chapter I - A Man who is Hungry is not the only Hungry one
Chapter II - The Monster
Chapter III - Another Form of Combat in the Gulf
Chapter IV - Nothing is Hidden and Nothing is Lost
Chapter V - In the Interval which Separates Six Inches from Two Feet there is Room to Lodge Death
Chapter VI - De Profundis ad Altum
Chapter VII - There is an Ear in the Unknown
Part Third - Déruchette - Book First - Night and Morn - Chapter I - The Bell of the Port
Chapter II - Again the Port Bell
Book Second - Gratitude in Full Despotism - Chapter I - Joy Surrounded by Anguish
Chapter II - The Leather Trunk
Book Third - Departure of the "Cashmere" - Chapter I - The Havelet quite close to the Church
Chapter II - Despairs in Presence of Each Other
Chapter III - The Foresight of Abnegation
Chapter IV - "For your Wife when you Marry"
Chapter V - The Great Tomb

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