Jules Verne 4 hr 37 min read

Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and the harpooner Ned Land are taken aboard the Nautilus by the mysterious Captain Nemo, and swept on a wondrous, captive voyage beneath the seas.

This is the original French text (part one) of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Visionary, thrilling, immortal. Read it for the incomparable undersea epic in Verne's own language, the enigmatic Nemo, his marvelous submarine, and a tour of the ocean's wonders and terrors, in the master's beloved cornerstone of scientific romance.

In its time

Published in 1870, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

4 hr 37 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).