Literature/Jules Verne

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.

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Contents

Part One

  1. Chapter IA Shifting Reef
  2. Chapter IIPro and Con
  3. Chapter IIII Form My Resolution
  4. Chapter IVNed Land
  5. Chapter VAt a Venture
  6. Chapter VIAt Full Steam
  7. Chapter VIIAn Unknown Species of Whale
  8. Chapter VIIIMobilis in Mobili
  9. Chapter IXNed Land’s Tempers
  10. Chapter XThe Man of the Seas
  11. Chapter XIAll by Electricity
  12. Chapter XIISome Figures
  13. Chapter XIIIThe Black River
  14. Chapter XIVA Note of Invitation
  15. Chapter XVA Walk on the Bottom of the Sea
  16. Chapter XVIA Submarine Forest
  17. Chapter XVIIFour Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific
  18. Chapter XVIIIVanikoro
  19. Chapter XIXTorres Straits
  20. Chapter XXA Few Days on Land
  21. Chapter XXICaptain Nemo’s Thunderbolt
  22. Chapter XXII“Ægri Somnia”
  23. Chapter XXIIIThe Coral Kingdom

Part Two

  1. Chapter IThe Indian Ocean
  2. Chapter IIA Novel Proposal of Captain Nemo’s
  3. Chapter IIIA Pearl of Ten Millions
  4. Chapter IVThe Red Sea
  5. Chapter VThe Arabian Tunnel
  6. Chapter VIThe Grecian Archipelago
  7. Chapter VIIThe Mediterranean in Forty-Eight Hours
  8. Chapter VIIIVigo Bay
  9. Chapter IXA Vanished Continent
  10. Chapter XThe Submarine Coal-Mines
  11. Chapter XIThe Sargasso Sea
  12. Chapter XIICachalots and Whales
  13. Chapter XIIIThe Iceberg
  14. Chapter XIVThe South Pole
  15. Chapter XVAccident or Incident?
  16. Chapter XVIWant of Air
  17. Chapter XVIIFrom Cape Horn to the Amazon
  18. Chapter XVIIIThe Poulps
  19. Chapter XIXThe Gulf Stream
  20. Chapter XXFrom Latitude 47° 24′ to Longitude 17° 28′
  21. Chapter XXIA Hecatomb
  22. Chapter XXIIThe Last Words of Captain Nemo
  23. Chapter XXIIIConclusion