Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
English • 1870 • Public Domain • Free to stream
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, published in 1870, is Jules Verne's extraordinary vision of the deep ocean. Professor Aronnax, harpooner Ned Land, and servant Conseil are captured by the mysterious Captain Nemo and taken aboard his submarine, the Nautilus — a vessel decades ahead of anything that existed. Together they travel the ocean floor, discovering wonders and horrors in equal measure, while Nemo's true nature and motivations slowly emerge.
Verne described the Nautilus in such technical detail that naval engineers read the book as a blueprint. The science has aged, but the adventure hasn't. Captain Nemo remains one of fiction's great ambiguous figures — genius, idealist, and monster in equal measure. The book is in the public domain and streams free here — no signup, no subscription, no ads.
About the book: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne. The book was originally serialised from March 1869 to June 1870 in a French fortnightly periodical. A deluxe octavo edition was subsequently published in November 1871, featuring illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou.
The novel describes the adventures of its protagonists aboard the submarine Nautilus, which is captained by the mysterious Captain Nemo. The book was widely acclaimed upon its release and remains regarded as one of Verne's greatest works and one of the premier adventure novels. Its depiction of the Nautilus is considered ahead of its time, accurately describing many features of modern submarines when vessels in the 1860s were comparatively primitive.
Jules Verne took the name Nautilus from one of the earliest successful submarines, built in 1800 by Robert Fulton, who also invented the first commercially successful steamboat. Furthermore, Verne was inspired by a model of the French submarine Plongeur, which he saw at an exposition in 1867.
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