For many, then, this book has been a source of fascination, surely one of the most influential novels ever written, an inspiration for such scientists and discoverers as engineer Simon Lake, oceanographer William Beebe, polar traveler ...
violence that appalled not only Verne but all Europe. As originally conceived, Verne's Captain Nemo was a Polish nobleman whose entire familyhad been slaughtered by Russian troops. Nemo builds a fabulous futuristic submarine, ...
Professor Aronnax sets out in search of a dangerous sea monster, only to learn that the monster is really Captain Nemo's powerful submarine.
The title page of Zurcher and Margollé's Le Monde sous-marin (Hetzel, ) has a similar epigraph: 'Qui sondera les mystères de l'Abîme? Job' ('Who will sound the mysteries of the Abyss? Job'). Furthermore, Renard's Le Fond de la mer (also ...
Science Fiction Classics #7: The story of Captain Nemo and the submarine Nautilus, and its twenty thousand league travel through the seas. Translated from the French.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A Tour of the Underwater World") is a classic science ...
A French professor and his two companions embark on a perilous underwater odyssey through the world's oceans as prisoners on the Nautilus, the fabulous electric submarine commanded by the deranged Captain Nemo.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870.
The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's periodical, the Magasin d'Éducation et de Récréation.
THE YEAR 1866 was marked by a bizarre development, an unexplained and downright inexplicable phenomenon that surely no one has forgotten.
It has a spiral, mother-of-pearl-lined shell with air-filled chambers that regulate ascent and descent, plus grasping tentacles ... However, he starts a diary a few days later (I ); this basic form will give rise to the rewriting of his ...
But this Nemo bears no resemblance to the Nemo we know; and the most basic facts do not tally. His age, for instance, is wildly off; and he claims, in a strange echo of Hetzel's implausible suggestion, that he sank the warship 'in a ...
The central characters of the tale, in the process of exploring marine disturbances, are captured by the megalomaniacal Captain Nemo. An undersea tour in a strange craft and their ensuing escape conclude the work.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: by jules verne When an unidentified "monster" threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to ...
This edition is translated by F. P. Walter, is illustrated by Milo Winter, and includes a biographical afterword.
While investigating reports of a sea monster off the coast of New York, Professor Pierre Aronnax instead discovers adventure in the depths of the ocean with Captain Nemo and the crew of the submarine Nautilus.
The deepest parts of the ocean are totally unknown to us," admits Professor Aronnax early in this novel.