The Toilers of the Sea
- Author: Victor Hugo
- First published: 1866
Synopsis
Victor Hugo’s Guernsey novel of Gilliatt, who takes on the sea itself to salvage an engine and win a woman’s hand — a book of labor, storms, and the octopus in the rocks.
Source: Open Library (edited as needed)
My commentary
Les Travailleurs de la mer (French) Also translated as The Workers of the Sea Author honors: Member of the Académie française (elected 1841)