20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Puffin Graphics)

by Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Puffin Graphics)  
published 2006 by Puffin
first published 1870
binding Paperback
isbn 0142406643   (isbn13: 9780142406649)
pages 176
description Professor Aronnax and his team set out on a mission to rid the seas of a giant monster. Yet when they are captured by the "monster" itself, ...more
date added
01-09-07



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Jason Pettus
Jason rated it: 3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars
03/14/08

Read in March, 2008
(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)

The CCLaP 100: In which I read a hundred so-called "classic" novels, then write reports on whether or not I think they deserve the label
Book #8: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne (1870)

The story in a nutshell:
Writing in the same Victorian ...more
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Kanchan
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne (1828–1905), published in 1870 under the title Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou. The novel is about the fictional Captain Nemo and his submarine, Nautilus, as seen by one of his passengers, Professor Pierre Aronnax.

The title refers to the distance travelled under the sea,...more
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fatemeh
bookshelves: literatrue-story-novel
Read in January, 2003
این رمان دنباله فرزندان کاپیتان گرانت است و پس از آن جزیره اسرارآمیز می­آید. حیوان دریایی عجیبی با هیکل غول­آسا در بعضی از سواحل دیده شده است. یک گروه تحقیق در کشتی امریکایی «آبراهام لینکلن» تشکیل می­شود. آروناکس ، دانشمند طبیعی­دان فرانسوی، و نوکر او، کونسی ، جزو این گروهند....more
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Erikwithak
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05/05/08

Read in May, 2008
recommends it for: Everyone, especially boaters
Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
New York: Bantoms Books, 1962
p.p. 371 $ 7.21
0-553-21063-7

A book that can captivate it's reader so much that they do not know when they are approaching the end, is a very special thing. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne a one of those books. This classic novel covers adventure, mystery, and even a very powerful message of how you cannot fight change, even when change is worth stopping.
As the title, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ...more
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Soomanaat
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04/22/08

ناگهان توجه جهان به اعماق آبها جلب می‌شود.مردم جهان متوجه موجود ناشناسی می‌شوند، که در اعماق آب‌ها زندگی می‌کند. عده‌ای گمان می‌کنند او یک کوسه بزرگ است، عده دیگری هستند، که معتقدند، او نوعی هیولای دریایی ناشناخته است. اما کمتر کسی می‌تواند تصورش را بکند،‌ که آن موجود، و...more
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Justin
02/04/08

recommends it for: anyone
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Brooke
04/02/08

bookshelves: 2008, classics
Read in April, 2008
Two stars is almost generous; given his importance in the history of the science fiction genre, it really seems like Jules Verne should have produced something that stood the test of time. Twenty Thousand Leagues is a chore to read; I read in another review that a total of 75 pages are devoted to lists of fish. This explains why it didn't take me very long to read this book, after the first few fish passages, I began jumping over them whenever I noticed they were starting again.

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Werner
05/05/08

bookshelves: classics, science-fiction
Read in January, 2000
Verne's works are difficult for an English-speaking reader to evaluate fairly, because he wasn't well-served by the English translations of his day --which are still the standard ones in print, which most people read. The translators changed plots and character's names in some cases, excised passages they considered "boring," and generally took a very free hand with the text; so you never know how much of the plodding pacing, bathetic dialogue, and stylistic faults (for instance, what...more
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Jen
05/23/08

bookshelves: recentlyfinished
Read in May, 2008
recommends it for: anyone interested in the sea
Well, this isn't the exact edition I read (mine was a Signet classic paperback) but... what does that really matter, in the end, so long as it's not abridged?

Anyway, even though I totally love 19th century literature, I really wasn't expecting to like this book so much as I did. It was fast-paced (...er... for a Victorian novel, that is), and not nearly as politically incorrect as I'd feared. Seriously, there is scolding when the main character refers to some pacific island natives as sa...more
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Andrew
07/12/07

Read in July, 2007
recommends it for: Everyone
A classic in every sense of the word, and well worth a read if you have never done so.

The particular copy I had (one of the Barnes and Nobles Classics Paperbacks, with notations) was doubly fascinating as a cultural barometer; Verne goes to a lot of trouble to work detailed explanations of the technology that Nemo has created (like electric lights and motors, the use of electricity as a weapon [think tasers], and the workings of a submarine and scuba gear) into the narrative, so that his rea...more
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Faustess
bookshelves: fiction-megalist
Read in July, 2005
I just finished Verne's masterpiece today. I would have liked to have had a 19th century dictionary (or a very good current one!) with me while reading it, as some of the old words for different marine life were confusing for me. The ship-talk was a little dull, but I would have probably enjoyed it more if I'd been plotting the Nautilus's course on a map with latitude and longitude.

That being said, however, I really enjoyed 20,000 Leagues. I read it as part of a Barnes & Noble online dis...more
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Chris
06/13/08

Read in February, 2008
recommended to Chris by: My own interests
recommends it for: Adventure book readers
This book ties with my top spot on my list (other being Treasure Island). Adventure, intreague and suspense all while exploring the unknown depths of the sea await you.
In the year of 1866 a mysterious "Monster" of the sea has wreaked havoc in the shipping world. Eager to solve the problem a voiage is set out to slay the beast, which in fact, turns out to be a futuristic submarine run by the enigma who calls himself Captain Nemo (Nemo means no man in Latin). The main character, Prof...more
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Ali
04/02/08

bookshelves: fantasy-fictions
ya, I would say I've read it some day, and I enjoyed it a lot, as much as my daydreams!
اغلب آثار ژول ورن با ترجمه هایی عجیب غریب توسط مترجمانی گمنام به فارسی برگردانده می شد و بیشتر جزو کتاب های کیلویی گوتمبرک در ابتدای دهه ی چهل به فروش می رسید. نسل ما هم مثل همه ی نسل های جوان، ژول ورن را به تخیلات دور و درازش دوست...more
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Matthew
A pleasant little adventure with quite a few loooooong-winded lists of aquatic life and now-irrelevant scientific notions. I was never very captivated by the story, but Captain Nemo is definitely an intriguing and iconic character, as is his submarine, the Nautilus. It was one of those works that I wanted to like better because of its originality and inventiveness and it's iconic place in literature, but I just never found myself drawn deeply into the narrative. It's certainly one thin...more
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Devon
god this book was awful
ok i hear people complain about tolkien saying that he describes things too much, that he writes about all the flowers and bushes and trees(and most people are pissed because they dont know what those things actually look like and it screws up their ability to visualize the story)
and i see where they are coming from, but verne does it in this book, only with the fish.
he catalogs every species of fish they see, and you know what it felt like he was writing to say. i ...more
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Sondra
Sondra is currently reading it (review of isbn 076072850X)
03/24/08

bookshelves: currently-reading
Read in October, 2007
I'm not really enjoying this but I'm trying to get through it ... on my Blackberry. I revert to it whenever I'm stuck in a line-up, which is probably why I'm not enjoying it. What's interesting about it is that it was written so long ago, prior to the invention of submarines and before the knowledge we now have about the oceans. The worlds described are fabulous; I just want it to end soon. I don't see where it's going. I downloaded it for free on Project Gutenburg. I think I will go for &...more
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Quinn
08/15/07

It's an amazing book but weirdly difficult to get through because of all the pseudo-scientific jargon he packs into it, which I seem to remember reading later Verne admitted to totally making up. So just when you're getting interested by Nemo, thinking what the hell ethnicity is this guy anyway? or what is this energy he can produce? you get swamped by thirty pages on the architecture of urchin skeletons. I'm tempted to make the rare call that the movie might be better, definitely more easil...more
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David
06/26/08

bookshelves: classics
A science textbook and a legal document had a baby that thinks it's a novel.

I read about 2/3 of it, and every bit of it was a chore. At first i didn't think anything would ever happen. then i decided things were happening, but it still wasn't worth it. The characters are boring and unbelievable and the tone of the entire book (and everything the characters say) is pompous. the interest in truth through scientific explanation, while charming the first couple times, gets incredibly boring, as i...more
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David
09/27/07

I love Jules Verne but there are too many boring parts in this book. He has a bad habit, which really bugs me, of trying so hard to make his heroes seem brilliant that he has them reciting dictionaries. It's not believable, and seems a little lazy. For example, the characters will see plants in the ocean and they will converse for several chapters on all of the menial trivia involving the plants and their close relatives. It's not interesting information, it's just show-off data. He falls i...more
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Nathan
06/18/08

It has been said that Captain Nemo is the worst villain in classic literature. I disagree. I submit that Verne's intimate knowledge of marine biology, which he thrusts upon the reader in chapter after painful chapter, is TRULY the worst villain in classic literature, though it could be argued that Melville's familiarity with the whaling industry is right up there. Overall, too much of the book told me too little. I was hoping for a better character sketch of Captain Nemo, and I was left want...more
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