Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Vintage Classics)

Author(s): Jules Verne

Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction

Professor Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down and destroy a menacing sea monster. However, he discovers that the beast is metal - it is a giant submarine called the Nautilus built by the renegade scientist Captain Nemo.

General Information

  • : 9780099528531
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Vintage Classics
  • : 0.128
  • : January 2011
  • : 198mm X 127mm X 12mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : July 2011
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Jules Verne
  • : Paperback
  • : 711
  • : en
  • : 843.8
  • : 176
  • : FL

More About The Product

From the grandpere of science fiction - an adventure classic of deep-sea volcanoes, giant squid and the renegade scientist Captain Nemo

"Unbearably thrilling and romantic... full of Verne's gentle humour." - Daily Mail "Among the deep-sea vocanoes, shoals of swirling fish, giant squid and sharks, Captain Nemo steers the Nautilus. Nemo is the renegade scientist par excellence, a man madly inventive in his quest for revenge." - Sunday Telegraph "A tale of terror, suspense and wonder." - Guardian

Jules Verne was born on February 8, 1828, in the city of Nantes, France . He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne is often referred to as the 'Father of science fiction' because he wrote about space, air and underwater travel before aeroplanes, spacecrafts and submarines were invented. He died in 1905.