Toilers of the Sea

Victor Hugo

⏱ 8 minFrench classic

To win the woman he loves, a solitary fisherman battles the sea, a storm, and a monstrous octopus to salvage a wreck, then learns she loves another. Hugo's elemental sea-romance.

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