by Victor Hugo, Isabel Florence Hapgood
I read Hugo's Les Miserables a long time ago, and I liked it very much and fell in love with Hugo's style ever since."Toilers of the sea" is just great. It is a very touching and inspiring novel. Everyone should read it more than once.
From the introduction, I learned that Victor Hugo intended this book, Les Mis and The Hunchback of Notre Dame to be a trilogy; nature, society and religion being the themes that connected them. Though I now know more about the ocean, tides and storms than I ever thought I'd want to know, I'm glad I ...
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=1676890Translator: W. Moy ThomasDedication:I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO THE ROCK OF HOSPITALITY AND LIBERTY TO THAT PORTION OF OLD NORMAN GROUND INHABITED BY THE NOBLE LITTLE NATION OF THE SEA TO T...