Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Jules Verne, 1870Translated by Lewis Page Mercier (1872)
Jules Verne’s novel of Professor Aronnax, a French naturalist who sets out to hunt a mysterious sea monster and is taken prisoner, with his servant and a Canadian harpooner, aboard the Nautilus, the submarine of the enigmatic Captain Nemo.
Famous quotes
- Part One, Chapter XIn context
- Part One, Chapter XIn context
- Part One, Chapter XIn context
- Part One, Chapter XIn context
A coral tomb makes a quiet grave; and I trust that I and my comrades will find no other.
Part One, Chapter XVIIIIn contextI am the law, and I am the judge! I am the oppressed, and there is the oppressor!
Part Two, Chapter XXIIn context
Contents
Part One
- Chapter IA Shifting Reef
- Chapter IIPro and Con
- Chapter IIII Form My Resolution
- Chapter IVNed Land
- Chapter VAt a Venture
- Chapter VIAt Full Steam
- Chapter VIIAn Unknown Species of Whale
- Chapter VIIIMobilis in Mobili
- Chapter IXNed Land’s Tempers
- Chapter XThe Man of the Seas
- Chapter XIAll by Electricity
- Chapter XIISome Figures
- Chapter XIIIThe Black River
- Chapter XIVA Note of Invitation
- Chapter XVA Walk on the Bottom of the Sea
- Chapter XVIA Submarine Forest
- Chapter XVIIFour Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific
- Chapter XVIIIVanikoro
- Chapter XIXTorres Straits
- Chapter XXA Few Days on Land
- Chapter XXICaptain Nemo’s Thunderbolt
- Chapter XXII“Ægri Somnia”
- Chapter XXIIIThe Coral Kingdom
Part Two
- Chapter IThe Indian Ocean
- Chapter IIA Novel Proposal of Captain Nemo’s
- Chapter IIIA Pearl of Ten Millions
- Chapter IVThe Red Sea
- Chapter VThe Arabian Tunnel
- Chapter VIThe Grecian Archipelago
- Chapter VIIThe Mediterranean in Forty-Eight Hours
- Chapter VIIIVigo Bay
- Chapter IXA Vanished Continent
- Chapter XThe Submarine Coal-Mines
- Chapter XIThe Sargasso Sea
- Chapter XIICachalots and Whales
- Chapter XIIIThe Iceberg
- Chapter XIVThe South Pole
- Chapter XVAccident or Incident?
- Chapter XVIWant of Air
- Chapter XVIIFrom Cape Horn to the Amazon
- Chapter XVIIIThe Poulps
- Chapter XIXThe Gulf Stream
- Chapter XXFrom Latitude 47° 24′ to Longitude 17° 28′
- Chapter XXIA Hecatomb
- Chapter XXIIThe Last Words of Captain Nemo
- Chapter XXIIIConclusion