Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Vintage Classics
by Jules Verne, Henry Frith (Translator)
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Mass market paperback, 463 pages
Price: $10.00

In an age that has seen the wildest speculations of science become reality, Jules Verne is regarded as both a technological prophet and one of the most exciting masters of imagination the world has ever known. Of all his novels, none is more compelling and thrilling than 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. This extraordinary voyage into the depths of the unknown aboard the legendary submarine Nautilus—commanded by the brilliant, tragic Captain Nemo—explores both the incredible possibilities of science and the twisted labyrinth of the human mind. The novel stands as science raised to the level of literature and remains a vivid expression of a new era of technological advancement and humanity's place within that world.

Table of Contents:

PART I

  1. A Moving Rock
  2. For and Against
  3. "Just as Monsieur Pleases!"
  4. Ned Land
  5. "At a Venture"
  6. Full Speed
  7. An Unknown Species of Whale
  8. Mobilis in Mobile
  9. Ned Land's Anger
  10. The Man of the Sea
  11. The Nautilus
  12. Entirely by Electricity
  13. A Few Figures
  14. The Black River
  15. A Note of Invitation
  16. A Walk at the Bottom of the Sea
  17. A Submarine Forest
  18. Four Thousand Leagues Beneath the Pacific
  19. Vanikoro
  20. Torres Strait
  21. Some Days "Ashore"
  22. Captain Nemo's Lightning
  23. Aegri Somnia
  24. The Realms of Coral

PART II

  1. The Indian Ocean
  2. A Novel Proposition of Captain Nemo
  3. A Pearl of Ten Millions
  4. The Red Sea
  5. The Arabian Tunnel
  6. The Grecian Archipelago
  7. The Mediterranean in Forty-Eight Hours
  8. Vigo Bay
  9. A Submerged Continent
  10. The Submarine Coal-Fields
  11. The Sargasso Sea
  12. Cachalots and Whales
  13. The Icebergs
  14. The South Pole
  15. Accident or Incident?
  16. Want of Air
  17. From Cape Horn to the Amazon
  18. The Octopus
  19. The Gulf Stream
  20. From Latitude 47° 24' to Longitude 17° 28'
  21. A Hecatomb
  22. The Last Words of Captain Nemo
  23. Conclusion
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