Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
French • Public Domain • Free to stream
Jules Verne's Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (1870) is the definitive underwater adventure — and one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written. Marine biologist Professor Aronnax and his companions are captured by the mysterious Captain Nemo aboard his submarine Nautilus, and embarked on an extraordinary voyage beneath the world's oceans. Visionary, thrilling, and philosophically rich. Stream free in native French.
About the book: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne. It was originally serialised from March 1869 to June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's French fortnightly periodical, the Magasin d'éducation et de récréation. A deluxe octavo edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871, included 111 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou.
The book tells the story of adventures aboard the submarine Nautilus, which was built in secrecy and roams the seas, beyond the reach of governments. 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. Its depiction of Captain Nemo's submarine, Nautilus, is regarded as ahead of its time, as it accurately describes many features of modern submarines, which in the 1860s were comparatively primitive vessels.
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. Verne was also inspired by a model of the French submarine Plongeur, which he saw at the Exposition Universelle in 1867.
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