Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
1870 novel by Jules Verne / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (French: Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne.
Author | Jules Verne |
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Original title | Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers |
Illustrator | Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Series | Voyages extraordinaires Captain Nemo #1 |
Genre | Adventure, Science fiction[1] |
Publisher | Pierre-Jules Hetzel |
Publication date | March 1869 to June 1870 (as serial) 1870 (book form) |
Published in English | 1872 |
Preceded by | In Search of the Castaways |
Followed by | Around the Moon |
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. A deluxe octavo edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871, included 111 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou.[2] 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. 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.
Jules Verne saw a model of the French submarine Plongeur at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, which inspired him while writing the novel.[3][4][5]