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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
By Jules Verne
Length15h 44m
About this audiobook
In "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas", Jules Verne created a character, Captain Nemo, who would continue to haunt the imagination of generations to come in the manner of Homer’s hero, from whom Nemo took his name. In the "Odyssey" (c. 725 b.c.e.; English translation, 1614), Ulysses calls himself Nemo, or “No one,” in order to hide his identity from the Cyclops. Verne’s unknown renegade, making war on injustice, has likewise become a myth.
The best known of Verne’s works was also the one that took the longest to find its way into print. It is certain that the author was working on a story tentatively titled “Voyage Under the Waters” in 1865. After his exploration of the air in "Five Weeks in a Balloon" and his "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", it was logical that Verne would pursue his pedagogical mission by exploring the bottom of the sea.
The novel focuses on a group of scientists embarking on a dangerous voyage in a submarine piloted by the eccentric Captain Nemo in search of a giant monster. As the journey wears on, the crew encounters dangerous life forms, but the biggest threat to their safety may be their increasingly mad captain...
Considered one of the greatest science-fiction novels ever written, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas" explores themes of culture, class, grief, and the preservation of the environment. It is considered one of the forerunners of the ecology movement and displays a great respect for the life of the sea.
"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas" was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's fortnightly periodical, the Magasin d'éducation et de récréation.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, General Fiction, Children's Literature
Length15 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 30, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PART 1
2Chapter 1 - A Runaway Reef
3Chapter 2 - The Pros and Cons
4Chapter 3 - As Master Wishes
5Chapter 4 - Ned Land
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6Chapter 5 - At Random!
7Chapter 6 - At Full Steam
8Chapter 7 - A Whale of Unknown Species
9Chapter 8 - "Mobilis in Mobili"
10Chapter 9 - The Tantrums of Ned Land
11Chapter 10 - The Man of the Waters
12Chapter 11 - The Nautilus
13Chapter 12 - Everything through Electricity
14Chapter 13 - Some Figures
15Chapter 14 - The Black Current
16Chapter 15 - An Invitation in Writing
17Chapter 16 - Strolling the Plains
18Chapter 17 - An Underwater Forest
19Chapter 18 - Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific
20Chapter 19 - Vanikoro
21Chapter 20 - The Torres Strait
22Chapter 21 - Some Days Ashore
23Chapter 22 - The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo
24Chapter 23 - "Aegri Somnia"
25Chapter 24 - The Coral Realm
26PART 2
27Chapter 1 - The Indian Ocean
28Chapter 2 - A New Proposition from Captain Nemo
29Chapter 3 - A Pearl Worth Ten Million
30Chapter 4 - The Red Sea
31Chapter 5 - Arabian Tunnel
32Chapter 6 - The Greek Islands
33Chapter 7 - The Mediterranean in Forty–Eight Hours
34Chapter 8 - The Bay of Vigo
35Chapter 9 - A Lost Continent
36Chapter 10 - The Underwater Coalfields
37Chapter 11 - The Sargasso Sea
38Chapter 12 - Sperm Whales and Baleen Whales
39Chapter 13 - The Ice Bank
40Chapter 14 - The South Pole
41Chapter 15 - Accident or Incident?
42Chapter 16 - Shortage of Air
43Chapter 17 - From Cape Horn to the Amazon
44Chapter 18 - The Devilfish
45Chapter 19 - The Gulf Stream
46Chapter 20 - In Latitude 47° 24' and Longitude 17° 28'
47Chapter 21 - A Mass Execution
48Chapter 22 - The Last Words of Captain Nemo
49Chapter 23 - Conclusion
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