The Toilers of the Sea
, by HUGO, VICTORHOGARTH, JAMES
- ISBN: 9780375761324 | 0375761322
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 9/10/2002
Edited by Mark Van Doren. Introduction by David Bromwich..
<b>James Hogarth</b> was educated at Edinburgh University, and was later undersecretary in the Scottish Office. <br><br><b>Graham Robb’s</b> many books include<i> Victor Hugo: A Biography</i>, which won the 1997 Whitbread Biography Award.
| Introduction | |
| Sieur Clubin | |
| What a Bad Reputation Is Composed Of | |
| A Word Written on a Blank Page | p. 1 |
| The Bu de la Rue | p. 3 |
| "For Your Wife, When You Marry" | p. 6 |
| Unpopularity | p. 9 |
| Other Suspicious Things About Gilliatt | p. 16 |
| The Paunch | p. 18 |
| For a Haunted House, a Visionary Inhabitant | p. 22 |
| The Chair Gild-Holm-'Ur | p. 24 |
| Mess Lethierry | |
| A Restless Life and a Quiet Conscience | p. 27 |
| A Taste Which He Had | p. 29 |
| The Ancient Dialect of the Sea | p. 30 |
| One is Vulnerable Through What One Loves | p. 32 |
| Durande and Deruchette | |
| Chatter and Smoke | p. 35 |
| The Eternal Story of Utopia | p. 37 |
| Rantaine | p. 39 |
| Continuation of the Story of Utopia | p. 42 |
| The Devil Boat | p. 43 |
| Entrance of Lethierry into Glory | p. 47 |
| The Same Godfather and the Same Protectress | p. 49 |
| "Bonny Dundee" | p. 51 |
| The Man Who Had Seen Through Rantaine | p. 53 |
| Tales of Long Voyages | p. 54 |
| A Glance at Possible Husbands | p. 57 |
| An Exception in the Character of Lethierry | p. 58 |
| Heedlessness Adds New Grace to Beauty | p. 61 |
| The Bagpipe | |
| The First Red Gleams of Dawn, or a Conflagration | p. 63 |
| An Entrance, Step by Step, Into the Unknown | p. 65 |
| The Air "Bonny Dundee" Finds an Echo on the Hill | p. 67 |
| Pour l'oncle et le tuteur, bonshommes taciturnes, Les serenades sont des tapages nocturnes | p. 68 |
| Well-Merited Success is Always Hated | p. 70 |
| The Luck of a Shipwrecked Crew in Meeting a Sloop | p. 71 |
| The Luck of an Idler in Being Seen by a Fisherman | p. 73 |
| The Revolver | |
| The Conversations at the Jean Tavern | p. 77 |
| Clubin Perceives Someone | p. 82 |
| Clubin Carries Away and Does Not Bring Back | p. 85 |
| Plainmont | p. 87 |
| The Bird-Nesters | p. 92 |
| La Jacressarde | p. 101 |
| Nocturnal Purchases and a Shady Vendor | p. 106 |
| The Red Ball and the Black Ball Carom | p. 109 |
| Information Useful to Persons Who Await or Who Fear Letters from Across the Sea | p. 117 |
| The Drunken Helmsman and the Sober Captain | |
| The Douvres Rocks | p. 123 |
| Unexpected Brandy | p. 125 |
| Interrupted Conversations | p. 128 |
| In Which Captain Clubin Displays All His Qualities | p. 135 |
| Clubin Puts the Finishing Touch to Admiration | p. 140 |
| The Interior of an Abyss Illuminated | p. 144 |
| The Unexpected Intervenes | p. 150 |
| The Imprudence of Asking Questions of a Book | |
| The Pearl at the Bottom of the Precipice | p. 155 |
| Much Astonishment on the Western Coast | p. 161 |
| Tempt Not the Bible | p. 165 |
| Gilliatt the Crafty | |
| The Reef | |
| The Place Which Is Hard to Reach and Difficult to Leave | p. 173 |
| The Thoroughness of the Disaster | p. 177 |
| Sound, But Not Safe | p. 180 |
| A Preliminary Examination | p. 181 |
| A Word as to the Secret Cooperations of the Elements | p. 184 |
| A Stable for the Horse | p. 187 |
| A Room for the Traveler | p. 189 |
| Importunaeque Volucres | p. 196 |
| The Reef and How To Use It | p. 198 |
| The Forge | p. 201 |
| A Discovery | p. 204 |
| The Interior of a Submarine Edifice | p. 207 |
| What One Sees There, and What One Gets a Glimpse Of | p. 209 |
| The Labor | |
| The Resources of One Who Lacks Everything | p. 215 |
| How Shakespeare and Aeschylus Can Meet | p. 217 |
| Gilliatt's Masterpiece Comes to the Aid of Lethierry's Masterpiece | p. 219 |
| Sub Re | p. 222 |
| Sub Umbra | p. 227 |
| Gilliatt Brings the Paunch into Position | p. 231 |
| A Danger at Once | p. 234 |
| Change Rather Than Conclusion | p. 236 |
| Success Snatched Away as Soon as Granted | p. 239 |
| The Warnings of the Sea | p. 241 |
| A Word to the Wise is Sufficient | p. 244 |
| The Battle | |
| Extremes Meet | p. 247 |
| Sea Breezes | p. 248 |
| Explanation of the Noise to Which Gilliatt Listened | p. 251 |
| Turba, Turma | p. 254 |
| Gilliatt Has His Choice | p. 256 |
| The Combat | p. 257 |
| The False Bottoms | |
| A Man Who is Hungry is Not the Only Hungry One | p. 275 |
| The Monster | p. 279 |
| Another Form of Combat in the Gulf | p. 285 |
| Nothing is Hidden and Nothing is Lost | p. 288 |
| In the Interval That Separates Six Inches from Two Feet There is Room to Lodge Death | p. 291 |
| De Profundis ad Altum | p. 294 |
| There is an Ear in the Unknown | p. 300 |
| Deruchette | |
| Night and Moon | |
| The Bell of the Port | p. 303 |
| Again the Port Bell | p. 315 |
| Gratitude in Full Despotism | |
| Joy Surrounded by Anguish | p. 323 |
| The Leather Trunk | p. 330 |
| Departure of the Cashmere | |
| The Havelet Quite Close to the Church | p. 333 |
| Despairs in Presence of Each Other | p. 335 |
| The Foresight of Abnegation | p. 342 |
| "For Your Wife, When You Marry" | p. 346 |
| The Great Tomb | p. 349 |
| Afterword | |
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