Toilers Of The Sea
ISBN:
9780962685484 (0962685488)
Pages no: 356
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Romance,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
19th Century,
France,
French Literature
Victor! Già nel titolo c'è tutta la tua grandezza: quella pluralità che rende epica l'opera, perché l'epica non dev’essere confinata alla guerra; il lavoro può essere epico, e tu lo spieghi con forza, poesia, spessore e intensità tali da togliere il respiro. Dall’isola di Guernesey, tua terra d’esil...
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...