Pecheur D'Islande [Icelandic Fisherman] [FRENCH TEXT]

xvi, 206 pp. French text. Author was Eleanor Lansing Dulles's husband. Edited with Introduction, Notes, Exercises, and Vocabulary by D.S. Blondheim. An Iceland Fisherman ( Pêcheur d'Islande, 1886) is a novel by French author Pierre Loti. It depicts the romantic but inevitably sad life of Breton fishermen who sail each summer season to the stormy Iceland cod grounds. Literary critic Edmund Gosse characterized it as "the most popular and finest of all [Loti's] writings."