Toilers of the Sea
READING AGE 16+
First published in 1866
This version published in 1911.
Edited by Ernest Rhys
Translated by W. Moy Thomas
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 The Island Of Gurnsey, Severe Yet Kind, My Present Asylum, Perhaps My Tomb.--V.H.
A Tale Which Holdeth Children From Play, and Old Men From The Chimney Corner--Sir Philip Sidney
This book is about human nature, and Nature. This book is about love, and solitude, it is about pride, but the true one, the one pride that matters, the one for ourself, the one that does not involves "showing off". And Victor chose, his classical way to go, and extreme situation, involving characters somehow outcast... Describing the sea and the island in a way he must really have learned because he was "stranded" there for a while... I love this book, reading it in a 100 years old translation from French, as well as in a recent one. Enjoy.--Submitted by Luigi Marchionni
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GILLIATT walked along the water-side, passed rapidly through St. Peter's Port, and then turned towards St. Sampson by the seashore. In his anxiety to meet no one whom he knew, he avoided the highways now filled with foot-passengers by his great achievement.
For a long time, as the reader knows, he had had a peculiar manner of traversing th……
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