Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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Jules Verne

Fantasy & Science Fiction

Aug 27, 2018

Before submarines were actually invented, Jules Verne, a prolific French pioneer of science fiction and one of the most widely read authors in history, dreamed of what it would be like to use one to travel around the world underwater. And although Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is now considerably more than a hundred years old, it is still a thrilling and wonderfully entertaining fantasy of deep-sea adventure. When it comes to describing life beneath the waves, Verne mixes reported fact with his own luxuriant imaginings; it’s the latter that keep the book fresh. And although Verne was prophetic in some ways, including about the military use of submarines, the real reason to read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is to be on board as a master storyteller sounds the watery deep.

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