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100 1 _aSandeau, Jules,
_d1811-1883
240 1 3 _aLa roche aux mouettes. Finnish
245 1 0 _aLokkiluoto
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-03-08
508 _aTuula Temonen and Johanna Kankaanpää
520 _aLokkiluoto by Jules Sandeau is a novel written in the mid-19th century. Set on the Breton coast, it follows the frail boy Mark, his devoted mother, and a band of local children as the sea first restores health and then lures them into danger. The story promises a youthful coastal adventure threaded with family feeling, moral testing, and the perilous fascination of the ocean. The opening of the novel frames Pouliguen’s stark seascape in a preface to a young reader, then begins with Mrs. Henry bringing her sickly son Mark to the shore for recovery. After the deaths of two older boys and ominous signs in Mark, a candid doctor urges “nature” as the only real healer; life by the sea revives the child, who becomes enthralled by the ocean. Through the mother’s letters we see his vigor return, his fixation on boats grow, and a brief inland excursion that leaves him listless until he sights the water again. While the father plans to rejoin them, a quiet afternoon finds the village men away, the mother dozing, and Mark slipping to the harbor, where an older boy, Legoff, leads children into a moored boat. The tide carries them out; they lose the oars and finally crash on a reef by the lone Seagull Rock, wrecking the boat. Stranded at dusk, they pool scraps of food, salvage odds and ends, and under Legoff’s command build a towering signal fire before night fear sets in and storytelling begins to keep up their courage. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Otava, 1903
653 _aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aBoys -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aAdventure stories
653 _aRescues -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aShipwrecks -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aStorytelling -- Juvenile fiction
700 1 _aSuomalainen, Samuli,
_d1850-1907
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78145
999 _c118865
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