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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.
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.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, novel by Jules Verne, first published in French as Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers in 1869–70. It is perhaps the most popular book of his science-fiction series Voyages extraordinaires (1863–1910). Professor Pierre Aronnax, the narrator of the story, boards an American frigate commissioned to investigate a rash of attacks on international shipping by what is thought to be an amphibious monster. The supposed sea creature, which is actually...

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