Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea(s) (French:

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel by

French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870. It is about the fictional Captain

Nemo and his submarine, Nautilus, as seen by one of his passengers,

Professor Pierre Aronnax. The first illustrated edition (which is not the

original edition which had no illustrations) was published by Hetzel, contains a

number of illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.