![]() ![]() ![]() It is perhaps the most popular book of his science-fiction. ![]() Its depiction of Captain Nemo's underwater ship, the Nautilus, is regarded as ahead of its time, since it accurately describes many features of today's submarines, which in the 1860s were comparatively primitive vessels.Ī model of the French submarine Plongeur (launched in 1863) figured at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, where Jules Verne examined it and was inspired by it when writing his novel. Novel by Jules Verne, first published in French as Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers in 1869-70. The book was widely acclaimed on its release and remains so it is regarded as one of the premier adventure novels and one of Verne's greatest works, along with Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Published in 1870 by French author Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starts out with a hooking tale about a mysterious 'sea monster' roaming throughout the seas and crashing into ships. A deluxe octavo edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871, included 111 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou. The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's fortnightly periodical, the Magasin d'éducation et de récréation. Nemo appears in two of Vernes science-fiction classics, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and The Mysterious Island. ![]()
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