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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

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Digital: €4.99

Original publication
1870
Pages
385
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Adventure, Science Fiction
Moods
Escape it all, Be enchanted, Imagine tomorrow
Translated from
French

Book summary

In 1866, an unknown sea monster is reported on every ocean. Professor Aronnax sets out to hunt it down, with his servant Conseil and the harpooner Ned Land. Thrown into the sea, they are taken aboard the Nautilus, an extraordinary submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo.

Prisoners of this man who has broken with the world, they travel the oceans of the globe with him and discover the wonders of an undersea world then unknown. But who is Nemo really, and why does he flee dry land?

Full of adventure and discovery, this novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

海の底を歩いて散歩する。フランスの学者アロナックス教授は、潜水艦ノーチラス号で暮らしている。ある日、船の主ネモ船長が、自分の森での狩りに教授を招く。教授は陸に上がるのだと思う。ところが翌日、船長は教授に潜水服を着せる。

The world of the book

海の底、未知の世界。物語の舞台は1867年から1868年。大きな蒸気船が大洋を行き交うが、海の底を見た者はまだいない。最初の潜水艦は、岸の近くを離れない遅い試験艇だ。だがノーチラス号は海中を進んで世界を一周する。船内はすべて電気で動く。明かりといえば、まだろうそくとガス灯の時代である。

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