The Works Of Victor Hurgo Vol 10 Classic Reprint

Author : Victor Hugo
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ISBN 13 : 9781331118398
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Victor Hurgo, Vol. 5 written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Victor Hurgo, Vol. 5: Introduction and Notes by Robert Louis Superstition and social exigency having been dealt with in Notre Dame and Les Miserables, it remained for The Toilers of the Sea to show man hand to hand with the elements, the last form of external force that is brought against him. And here once more the artistic effect and the moral lesson are worked out together, and are, indeed, one. Gilliat, alone upon the reef at his herculean task, offers a type of human industry in the midst of the vague "diffusion of forces into the illimitable," and the visionary development of "wasted labor" in the sea, and the winds, and the clouds. No character was ever thrown into such strange relief as Gilliat. The great circle of sea-birds that come wonderingly around him on the night of his arrival, strikes at once the note of his preeminence and isolation. He fills the whole reef with his indefatigable toil; this solitary spot in the ocean rings with the clamor of his anvil; we see him as he comes and goes, thrown out sharply against the clear background of the sea. And yet his isolation is not to be compared with the isolation of Robinson Crusoe, for example; indeed, no two books could be more instructive to set side by side than The Toilers of the Sea and this other of the old days before art had learned to occupy itself with what lies outside of human will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."