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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

By Jules Verne

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Cover: The giant squid at the Nautilus's salon window (Hetzel edition, 1870) by Alphonse de Neuville (1835–1885) and Édouard Riou (1833–1900) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: A Shifting Reef
  2. 2: Pro and Con
  3. 3: I Form My Resolution
  4. 4: Ned Land
  5. 5: At a Venture
  6. 6: At Full Steam
  7. 7: An Unknown Species of Whale
  8. 8: Mobilis in Mobili
  9. 9: Ned Land’s Tempers
  10. 10: The Man of the Seas
  11. 11: All by Electricity
  12. 12: Some Figures
  13. 13: The Black River
  14. 14: A Note of Invitation
  15. 15: A Walk on the Bottom of the Sea
  16. 16: A Submarine Forest
  17. 17: Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific
  18. 18: Vanikoro
  19. 19: Torres Straits
  20. 20: A Few Days on Land
  21. 21: Captain Nemo’s Thunderbolt
  22. 22: “ægri Somnia”
  23. 23: The Coral Kingdom
  24. 24: The Indian Ocean
  25. 25: A Novel Proposal of Captain Nemo’s
  26. 26: A Pearl of Ten Millions
  27. 27: The Red Sea
  28. 28: The Arabian Tunnel
  29. 29: The Grecian Archipelago
  30. 30: The Mediterranean in Forty-Eight Hours
  31. 31: Vigo Bay
  32. 32: A Vanished Continent
  33. 33: The Submarine Coal-Mines
  34. 34: The Sargasso Sea
  35. 35: Cachalots and Whales
  36. 36: The Iceberg
  37. 37: The South Pole
  38. 38: Accident or Incident?
  39. 39: Want of Air
  40. 40: From Cape Horn to the Amazon
  41. 41: The Poulps
  42. 42: The Gulf Stream
  43. 43: From Latitude 47° 24′ to Longitude 17° 28′
  44. 44: A Hecatomb
  45. 45: The Last Words of Captain Nemo
  46. 46: Conclusion