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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

Original title: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers

Jules Verne (1828-1905)

Translation en 104072 words First published 1870 France

Jules Verne's 1870 classic of undersea adventure. A mysterious sea monster is sinking ships; Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil and harpooner Ned Land join the hunt — and discover that the monster is the Nautilus, a submarine commanded by the enigmatic Captain Nemo, who has renounced the world of men and taken his vengeance to the sea. From the lost city of Atlantis to the South Pole, from giant squid to coral graveyards, Verne's science-fantasy holds the whole ocean. This edition uses Lewis Mercier Lewis's classic translation.

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Table of Contents

  1. 001 CHAPTER I A SHIFTING REEF 1965 words
  2. 002 CHAPTER II PRO AND CON 1659 words
  3. 003 CHAPTER III I FORM MY RESOLUTION 1354 words
  4. 004 CHAPTER IV NED LAND 1927 words
  5. 005 CHAPTER V AT A VENTURE 1685 words
  6. 006 CHAPTER VI AT FULL STEAM 2393 words
  7. 007 CHAPTER VII AN UNKNOWN SPECIES OF WHALE 1968 words
  8. 008 CHAPTER VIII MOBILIS IN MOBILI 1987 words
  9. 009 CHAPTER IX NED LAND’S TEMPERS 873 words
  10. 010 CHAPTER X THE MAN OF THE SEAS 4714 words
  11. 011 CHAPTER XI ALL BY ELECTRICITY 1602 words
  12. 012 CHAPTER XII SOME FIGURES 1855 words
  13. 013 CHAPTER XIII THE BLACK RIVER 2003 words
  14. 014 CHAPTER XIV A NOTE OF INVITATION 2311 words
  15. 015 CHAPTER XV A WALK ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA 1843 words
  16. 016 CHAPTER XVI A SUBMARINE FOREST 2294 words
  17. 017 CHAPTER XVII FOUR THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE PACIFIC 1655 words
  18. 018 CHAPTER XVIII VANIKORO 2510 words
  19. 019 CHAPTER XIX TORRES STRAITS 2022 words
  20. 020 CHAPTER XX A FEW DAYS ON LAND 2557 words
  21. 021 CHAPTER XXI CAPTAIN NEMO’S THUNDERBOLT 3075 words
  22. 022 CHAPTER XXII “ÆGRI SOMNIA” 2180 words
  23. 023 CHAPTER XXIII THE CORAL KINGDOM 2116 words
  24. 024 CHAPTER I THE INDIAN OCEAN 2484 words
  25. 025 CHAPTER II A NOVEL PROPOSAL OF CAPTAIN NEMO’S 1501 words
  26. 026 CHAPTER III A PEARL OF TEN MILLIONS 3221 words
  27. 027 CHAPTER IV THE RED SEA 3097 words
  28. 028 CHAPTER V THE ARABIAN TUNNEL 2251 words
  29. 029 CHAPTER VI THE GRECIAN ARCHIPELAGO 2861 words
  30. 030 CHAPTER VII THE MEDITERRANEAN IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS 1043 words
  31. 031 CHAPTER VIII VIGO BAY 3088 words
  32. 032 CHAPTER IX A VANISHED CONTINENT 2778 words
  33. 033 CHAPTER X THE SUBMARINE COAL-MINES 2578 words
  34. 034 CHAPTER XI THE SARGASSO SEA 1608 words
  35. 035 CHAPTER XII CACHALOTS AND WHALES 2763 words
  36. 036 CHAPTER XIII THE ICEBERG 2997 words
  37. 037 CHAPTER XIV THE SOUTH POLE 3347 words
  38. 038 CHAPTER XV ACCIDENT OR INCIDENT? 1997 words
  39. 039 CHAPTER XVI WANT OF AIR 3200 words
  40. 040 CHAPTER XVII FROM CAPE HORN TO THE AMAZON 2302 words
  41. 041 CHAPTER XVIII THE POULPS 2323 words
  42. 042 CHAPTER XIX THE GULF STREAM 2595 words
  43. 043 CHAPTER XX FROM LATITUDE 47° 24′ TO LONGITUDE 17° 28′ 1879 words
  44. 044 CHAPTER XXI A HECATOMB 2861 words
  45. 045 CHAPTER XXII THE LAST WORDS OF CAPTAIN NEMO 2305 words
  46. 046 CHAPTER XXIII CONCLUSION 445 words