Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | |
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| Author | Jules Verne |
| Year Published | 1870 |
| Language | French |
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is an 1870 novel by French author Jules Verne. It is famous as an early and influential piece of science fiction.
Plot
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea follows the journeys of Pierre Arronax aboard the Nautilus, an enormous submarine constructed and owned by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. As a piece of travel fiction, the novel describes countless exotic locations and unexplored realms (including the Antarctic and the sea floor).
The novel also explores themes of British Imperialism, as Nemo is revealed to have fled to the sea after the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
