Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: Quick Facts

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Captain Nemo observing an octopus through the window of the Nautilus, illustration by Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville for the Hetzel edition of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

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