EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY
EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS
FICTION
HUGO’S TOILERS OF THE SEA
NOW NEWLY COMPLETED FROM
W. MOY THOMAS’S TRANSLATION
INTRODUCTION BY ERNEST RHYS
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First Issue of this Edition 1911
Reprinted 1913, 1917, 1920, 1928
Printed in Great Britain
INTRODUCTION
Victor Hugo was thinking much of Æschylus and his Prometheus at the time he conceived the figure of Gilliatt, heroic warrer with the elements. But it is to a creature of the Gothic mind like Byron’s Manfred, and not to any earlier, or classic, type of the eternal rebellion against fate or time or circumstance, that Hugo’s readers will be tempted to turn for the fellow to his Guernsey hero: