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  • Published: 15 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9780593081518
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea




A Vintage Classics edition of Jules Verne's beloved story of Captain Nemo, his giant submarine, and the ruins of Atlantis.

Prompted by disturbing reports of an enormous sea monster, marine biologist Pierre Aronnax joins an expedition to find and destroy it. After barely surviving an attack on the creature, the voyagers discover that their quarry is in fact a remarkably advanced submarine, the Nautilus. Its creator, Captain Nemo, is driven by a thirst for knowledge and by a hatred of civilization—and he refuses to let his “guests” leave. As Aronnax and his companions plot to escape, they are taken on a whirlwind tour of undersea marvels, including volcanoes, a giant squid, and the ruins of Atlantis. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is just as gripping and fantastical a read as it was a century and a half ago, when Jules Verne first imagined traveling beyond the bounds of the possible.

  • Published: 15 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9780593081518
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

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About the author

Jules Verne

Jules Verne was born in France in 1828 and died in 1905. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel was wildly successful, producing many brilliant novels in the burgeoning genre of science fiction: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Around the World in 80 Days, among others. Verne is the second most translated author in the world, after Agatha Christie and before Shakespeare.

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Praise for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

  • "One of the best storytellers who ever lived." --Arthur C. Clarke
  • "One of the best storytellers who ever lived." --Arthur C. Clarke