Toilers of the Sea - Couverture souple

Hugo, Victor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1906641293 ISBN 13 : 9781906641290

Editeur : ELSP, 2011

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

GiLL iATT lived in the parish of St. Sampson. He was not liked by his neighbours; and there were reasons for that fact. To begin with, he lived in a queer kind of haunted dwelling. In the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, sometimes in the country, but often in streets with many inhabitants, you will come upon a house the entrance to which is completely barricaded. Holly bushes obstruct the doorway, hideous boards, with nails, conceal the windows below; while the casements of the upper stories are neither closed nor open: all the window-frames are dusty and the glass broken. If there is a little yard, grass grows between its stones ;and the parapet of its wall is crumbling away. If there is a garden, it is choked with nettles, brambles, and hemlock, and strange insects abound in it. The chimneys are cracked, the roof is falling in; so much as can be seen from without of the rooms presents a dismantled appearance. The woodwork is rotten ;the stone mildewed. The paper of the walls has dropped away and hangs loose, until it presents a history of the bygone fashions of paper-hangings the scrawling patterns of the time of theE mpire, the crescentshaped draperies of theD irectory, the balustrades and pillars of the days of Louis XVI. The thick draperies of cobwebs, filled with flies, indicate the quiet reign long enjoyed by innunierable spiders. Sometimes a broken jug may be noticed on a shelf. Such houses are considered to be haunted. Satan is popularly believed to visit them by night. Houses are like the human beings who inhabit them. They become to their former selves what the corpse is to the living body. A superstitious belief among the people iS Snfficient to reduce them to this state of deathi Then their aspect is terrible. These ghostly houses are common in the Channel I slands. The rural and maritime populations are easily moved with notions of the active ag
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Hugo’s story unfolds the life of a reclusive fisherman, Gilliat, who lives on the Isle of Guernsey, where Hugo himself was exiled for a large portion of his life. When Gilliat becomes a young man, he falls in love with Déruchette, the beautiful niece of wealthy ship-owner Lethierry. When Lethierry’s steamship mysteriously runs aground, Déruchette, who is in love with the new rector of the island, offers to marry the man who can recover the ‘Durande’. Gilliat sets off at once to free the ship, and his feats of ingenuity and strength create some of the most memorable descriptions to be found in a romantic novel. Although the least known of Hugo’s masterpieces, this deliberately grandiose tale is by turns a sympathetic, richly detailed account of the hard work of seamanship and exhilarating action, as in the remarkable battle with the octopus. This irresistible novel, written with Hugo’s considerable narrative skill, is both captivating and haunting to its ironic conclusion.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ELSP
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906641293
• ISBN 13: 9781906641290
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible