Lokkiluoto by Jules Sandeau
"Lokkiluoto" by Jules Sandeau is a novel written in the mid-19th century. Set on the Breton coast, it is a seafaring adventure for young readers that pairs tender family drama with the sea’s lure and peril. The story centers on frail yet spirited Mark, his devoted mother, and village children whose courage and judgment are tested by the ocean. The opening of the novel first offers a warm preface that paints Pouliguen’s
shore and the narrator’s love of the sea. A grieving mother, Mrs. Henry, arrives with her sickly son Mark, following a doctor’s blunt advice to seek nature’s cure by the ocean after losing two older boys. Mark steadily revives in the salt air, grows obsessed with the sea, and chafes at his mother’s strict ban on boats; an inland excursion proves how deeply he belongs to the shore. As his father prepares to visit, a quiet afternoon turns dangerous: local boys, led by Legoff, push off in a boat; Mark slips away from his napping mother to join them; the ebb tide carries them to open water, they lose their oars, and are thrown onto a reef by the Seagulls’ Rock. Stranded at dusk, they share scraps, follow Legoff’s cool-headed lead, build a great signal fire from their shattered boat, and battle fear and guilt, finally distracting themselves with tall tales as night falls. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Sandeau, Jules, 1811-1883 |
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| Translator | Suomalainen, Samuli, 1850-1907 |
| Uniform Title | La roche aux mouettes. Finnish |
| Title | Lokkiluoto |
| Original Publication | Helsinki: Otava, 1903. |
| Credits | Tuula Temonen and Johanna Kankaanpää |
| Language | Finnish |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Boys -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Adventure stories |
| Subject | Rescues -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Shipwrecks -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Storytelling -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 78145 |
| Release Date | Mar 8, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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