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Victor Hugo's Toilers Of The Sea

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In 1851, Victor Hugo was exiled from France by Napoleon III due to Victor Hugo’s open attacks declaring that Napoleon III was a traitor of France. During this exile, settled upon the island of Guernsey, Victor Hugo conceived, wrote and published Les Travailleurs de la Mer (Toilers of the Sea). Within this novel, Hugo turns away from social and political issues and instead focuses on transforming mundane events of a small island community into drama of the highest calibre and man’s struggle with the sea and it’s inhabitants. The storyline of the novel shares similarities of an action movie; Victor Hugo places the protagonist, Gilliatt, in one precarious seafaring episode after another. The hero always triumphs, regrettably usually only for
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