Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2025-10-28
Publisher(s): Chartwell Books
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Summary

Discover Jules Verne’s epic underwater adventure with this gorgeous collectible edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Professor Aronnax, a marine biologist, joins harpoonist Ned Land in search of a mysterious sea creature in the open ocean, only to discover that the beast is actually a submarine piloted by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. They are taken captive, thus beginning a strange undersea voyage from Antarctic ice shelves to the subterranean city of Atlantis, hunting sharks along the way.

This collectible edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea features:

  • An elegant faux-leather cover with foil-embossed designs
  • Introduction by English scholar and professor Allen Grove
  • Unabridged text
  • A timeline of the life and times of Jules Verne

This stunning classic is a perfect gift or a wonderful addition to your home library.

Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, Chartwell Deluxe Editions offer beautifully presented works from some of the most important authors in literary history. Other deluxe classics from Chartwell include Little Women, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Anne of Green Gables, The Inferno, Dracula, The Republic, The Iliad, Meditations, and Irish Fairy and Folk Tales.

Author Biography

Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist and playwright best known for his epic adventures, including Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days. A true visionary and master storyteller, Verne foresaw the skyscraper, the submarine, and the airplane, among many other inventions, and he is often regarded as the “Father of Science Fiction.”

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