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Toilers of the Sea

by Victor Hugo

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Part I — Sieur Clubin — Book I — The History of a Bad Reputation
  4. 4II — The Bû de la Rue
  5. 5III — For Your Wife: When You Marry
  6. 6IV — An Unpopular Man
  7. 7V — More Suspicious Facts About Gilliatt
  8. 8VI — The Dutch Sloop
  9. 9VII — A Fit Tenant for a Haunted House
  10. 10VIII — The Gild-Holm-’ur Seat
  11. 11Book II — I. Mess Lethierry
  12. 12II — A Certain Predilection
  13. 13III — The Old Sea Language
  14. 14IV — One Is Vulnerable Where One Loves
  15. 15Book III — I. Durande and Déruchette
  16. 16II — The Old Story of Utopia
  17. 17III — Rantaine
  18. 18IV — Continuation of the Story of Utopia
  19. 19V — The Devil Boat
  20. 20VI — Lethierry’s Exaltation
  21. 21VII — The Same Godfather and the Same Patron Saint
  22. 22VIII — “Bonnie Dundee”
  23. 23IX — The Man Who Discovered Rantaine’s Character
  24. 24X — Long Yarns
  25. 25XI — Matrimonial Prospects
  26. 26XII — An Anomaly in the Character of Lethierry
  27. 27XIII — Thoughtlessness Adds a Grace to Beauty
  28. 28Book IV — The Bagpipe
  29. 29II — The Unknown Unfolds Itself by Degrees
  30. 30III — The Air “Bonnie Dundee” Finds an Echo on the Hill
  31. 31IV
  32. 32V — A Deserved Success Has Always Its Detractors
  33. 33VI — The Sloop “Cashmere” Saves a Shipwrecked Crew
  34. 34VII — How an Idler Had the Good Fortune to Be Seen by a Fisherman
  35. 35Book V — The Revolver
  36. 36II — Clubin Observes Someone
  37. 37III — Clubin Carries Away Something and Brings Back Nothing
  38. 38IV — Pleinmont
  39. 39V — The Birds’-Nesters
  40. 40VI — The Jacressade
  41. 41VII — Nocturnal Buyers and Mysterious Sellers
  42. 42VIII — A “Cannon” Off the Red Ball and the Black
  43. 43IX — Useful Information for Persons Who Expect or Fear the Arrival…
  44. 44Book VI — The Drunken Steersman and the Sober Captain
  45. 45II — An Unexpected Flask of Brandy
  46. 46III — Conversations Interrupted
  47. 47IV — Captain Clubin Displays All His Great Qualities
  48. 48V — Clubin Reaches the Crowning-Point of Glory
  49. 49VI — The Interior of an Abyss Suddenly Revealed
  50. 50VII — An Unexpected Denouement
  51. 51Book VII — The Danger of Opening a Book at Random
  52. 52II — Much Astonishment on the Western Coast
  53. 53III — A Quotation From the Bible
  54. 54Part II — Malicious Gilliatt — Book I — The Rock
  55. 55II — A Catalogue of Disasters
  56. 56III — Sound; but Not Safe
  57. 57IV — A Preliminary Survey
  58. 58V — A Word Upon the Secret Co-Operations of the Elements
  59. 59VI — A Stable for the Horse
  60. 60VII — A Chamber for the Voyager
  61. 61VIII — Importunæque Volucres
  62. 62IX — The Rock, and How Gilliatt Used It
  63. 63X — The Forge
  64. 64XI — Discovery
  65. 65XII — The Interior of an Edifice Under the Sea
  66. 66XIII — What Was Seen There; and What Perceived Dimly
  67. 67Book II — The Labour
  68. 68II — Wherein Shakespeare and Æschylus Meet
  69. 69III — Gilliatt’s Masterpiece Comes to the Rescue of That of Lethierry
  70. 70IV — Sub Re
  71. 71V — Sub Umbra
  72. 72VI — Gilliatt Places the Sloop in Readiness
  73. 73VII — Sudden Danger
  74. 74VIII — Movement Rather Than Progress
  75. 75IX — A Slip Between Cup and Lip
  76. 76X — Sea-Warnings
  77. 77XI — A Word to the Wise Is Enough
  78. 78Book III — The Struggle
  79. 79II — The Ocean Winds
  80. 80III — The Noises Explained
  81. 81IV — Turba Turma
  82. 82V — Gilliatt’s Alternatives
  83. 83VI — The Combat
  84. 84Book IV — Pitfalls in the Way
  85. 85II — The Monster
  86. 86III — Another Kind of Sea-Combat
  87. 87IV — Nothing Is Hidden, Nothing Lost
  88. 88V — The Fatal Difference Between Six Inches and Two Feet
  89. 89VI — De Profundis AD Altum
  90. 90VII — The Appeal Is Heard
  91. 91Part III — Déruchette — Book I — Night and the Moon
  92. 92II — The Harbour Bell Again
  93. 93Book II — Gratitude and Despotism
  94. 94II — The Leathern Trunk
  95. 95Book III — The Departure of the Cashmere
  96. 96II — Despair Confronts Despair
  97. 97III — The Forethought of Self-Sacrifice
  98. 98IV — For Your Wife: When You Marry
  99. 99V — The Great Tomb

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