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Toilers of the Sea (Version 2)

Gelesen von John Greenman

(3,8 Sterne; 5 Bewertungen)

The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Victor Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island community to convert seemingly mundane events into drama of the highest caliber. Set just after the Napoleonic Wars, Toilers of the Sea deals with the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the island. The story concerns a Guernseyman named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner, Mess Lethierry. When Lethierry's ship is wrecked on a perilous reef, Deruchette promises to marry whoever can salvage the ship's steam engine. Gilliatt eagerly volunteers, and the story follows his physical trials and tribulations, as well as the undeserved disapproval of his neighbors.
This is a recording of the Isabel Hapgood translation, long considered the best of early translations of the work. - Summary by John Greenman (17 hr 4 min)

Chapters

Volume I - Dedication & Preface

2:17

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Book First - What a Bad Reputation is Composed of - Chapter I - A Word Written …

4:50

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Chaptef II - The Bû de la Rue

11:07

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Chapter III - For your Wife when you Marry

8:11

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Chapter IV - Unpopularity

20:52

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Chapter V - Other Suspicious Things about Gilliatt

7:18

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Chapter VI - The Paunch Boat

12:21

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Chapter VII - For a Haunted House, a Visionary Inhabitant

7:19

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Chapter VIII - The Chair of Gild-Holm-'Ur

6:25

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Book Second - Mess Lethierry - Chapter I - A Restless Life and a Quiet Conscien…

5:44

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Chapter II - A Taste which he had

4:41

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Chapter III - The Ancient Dialect of the Sea

6:15

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Chapter IV - One is Vulnerable through what one Loves

3:42

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Book Third - Durande and Déruchette - Chapter I - Chatter and Smoke

8:24

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Chapter II - The Eternal History of Utopia

5:05

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Chapter III - Rantaine

9:31

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Chapter IV - Continuation of the History of Utopia

5:42

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Chapter V - The Devil-Boat

11:59

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Chapter VI - Entrance of Lethierry into Glory

5:17

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Chapter VII - The same Godfather and the same Protectress

5:33

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Chapter VIII - "Bonny Dundee"

8:25

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Chapter IX - The Man who had seen through Rantaine

3:00

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Chapter X - Tales of Long Voyages

7:00

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Chapter XI - A Glance at Possible Husbands

3:12

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Chapter XII - An Exception in the Character of Lethierry

11:43

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Chapter XIII - Heedlessness adds New Grace to Beauty

3:33

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Book Fourth - The Bagpipe - Chaprer I - The First Gleams of Dawn, or a Conflagr…

6:25

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Chapter II - An Entrance, Step by Step, into the Unknown

5:59

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Chapter III - The Air "Bonny Dundee" finds an Echo on the Hill

3:15

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Chapter IV - A Nocturnal Serenade

5:20

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Chapter V - Well-Merited Success is always Hated

3:29

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Chapter VI - The Luck of a Shipwrecked Crew in meeting a Sloop

5:39

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Book Fifth - The Revolver - Chapter I - The Conversation at the Jean Tavern

18:27

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Chapter II - Clubin perceives some one

5:58

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Chapter III - Clubin Carries Away and does not Bring Back

6:49

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Chapter IV - Plainmont

18:07

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Chapter V - The Bird-Nesters

22:07

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Chapter VI - The Jacressarde

17:17

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Chapter VII - Nocturnal Purchasers and a Shady Vendor

7:29

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Chapter VIII - The Red Ball and the Black Ball Carom

22:39

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Chapter IX - Information Useful to Persons who await or who fear Letters from A…

10:11

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Book Sixth - The Drunken Helmsman and the Sober Captain - Chapter I - The Douvr…

8:13

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Chapter II - Unexpected Brandy

8:42

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Chapter III - Interrupted Conversations

17:20

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Chapter IV - In which Captain Clubin displays all his Qualities

12:59

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Chapter V - Clubin puts the Finishing Touch to Admiration

9:35

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Chapter VI - The Interior of an Abyss Illuminated

20:59

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Chapter VII - The Unexpected intervenes

9:46

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Book Seventh - The Imprudence of asking Questions of a. Book - Chapter I - The …

19:27

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Chapter II - Much Astonishment on the Western Coast

11:19

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Chapter III - Tempt not the Bible

20:39

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Volume II - Part Two - Gilliatt The Crafty - Book First - The Reef - Chapter I …

13:24

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Chapter II - The Thoroughness of the Disaster

7:20

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Chapter III - Sound but not Safe

3:54

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Chapter IV - A Preliminary Exmination

7:19

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Chapter V - A Word as to the Secret Cooperation of the Elements

10:22

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Chapter VI - A Stable for the Horse

5:54

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Chapter VII - A Chamber for the Traveller

18:20

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Chapter VIII - Importunaeque Volucres

5:36

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Chapter IX - The Reef, and the Manner of Using it

8:01

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Chapter X - The Forge

10:44

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Chapter XI - A Discovery

10:20

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Chapter XII - The Interior of a Submarine Edifice

5:33

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Chapter XIII - What one sees there, and what one gets a Glimpse of

14:53

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Book Second - Labor - Chapter I - The Resources of one who lacks Everything

7:03

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Chapter II - How Shakespeare and Aeschylus can meet

4:42

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Chapter III - Gilliatt's Masterpiece comes to the succor of Lethierry's Masterp…

9:09

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Chapter IV - Sub Re

15:42

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Chapter V - Sub Umbra

16:50

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Chapter VI - Gilliatt brings the Paunch into Position

6:31

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Chapter VII - A Danger at Once

8:24

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Chapter VIII - Change rather than Conclusion

8:48

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Chapter IX - Success snatched away as soon as granted

4:04

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Chapter X - The Warnings of the Sea

7:41

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Chapter XI - A Word to the Wise is Sufficient

7:06

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Book Third - The Battle - Chapter I - Extremes Meet

4:13

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Chapter II - Sea Breezes

9:17

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Chapter III - Explanation of the Noise to which Gilliatt Listened

8:51

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Chapter IV - Turba, Turma

6:07

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Chapter V - Gilliatt has his Choice

2:32

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Chapter VI - The Combat

51:20

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Book Four - The Pitfalls of the Obstacle - Chapter I - A Man who is Hungry is n…

11:37

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Chapter II - The Monster

20:49

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Chapter III - Another Form of Combat in the Gulf

7:13

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Chapter IV - Nothing is Hidden and Nothing is Lost

9:48

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Chapter V - In the Interval which Separates Six Inches from Two Feet there is R…

8:41

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Chapter VI - De Profundis ad Altum

16:56

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Chapter VII - There is an Ear in the Unknown

4:48

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Part Third - Déruchette - Book First - Night and Morn - Chapter I - The Bell of…

37:45

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Chapter II - Again the Port Bell

21:15

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Book Second - Gratitude in Full Despotism - Chapter I - Joy Surrounded by Angui…

24:41

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Chapter II - The Leather Trunk

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Book Third - Departure of the "Cashmere" - Chapter I - The Havelet quite close …

7:31

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Chapter II - Despairs in Presence of Each Other

18:25

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Chapter III - The Foresight of Abnegation

12:13

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Chapter IV - "For your Wife when you Marry"

8:34

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Chapter V - The Great Tomb

21:47

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Bewertungen

a tragic hero

(4 Sterne)

amazing book I think it's a wonderful period piece displaying the culture of that shore of the strait and setting up an exemplary tragic hero

Very sad story

(4 Sterne)

much more tragic than the hunchback of notre-dame - reading is fine but technically poor as the volume is too low

A Great Story

(5 Sterne)

Full of passion and unique characters. I fell in love (again) with the sea and its people. We'll read too.

Not what I expected

(1 Sterne)

Too many references to superstitions of ignorant folk!