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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

Hai vạn dặm dưới đáy biển (tiếng Pháp: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) là một tiểu thuyết khoa học viễn tưởng kinh điển của nhà văn người Pháp Jules Verne xuất bản vào năm 1870. Nó kể câu chuyện về Thuyền trưởng Nemo và con tàu ngầm của ông ta là Nautilus (trong tiếng Hy Lạp có nghĩa là Thủy thủ) từ quan điểm của giáo sư Pierre Aronnax. Phiên bản có minh họa đầu tiên (không phải bản gốc không có minh họa) được xuất bản bởi Pierre-Jules Hetzel và chứa một số tranh vẽ của Alphonse de. | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Prepared and Published by Ebd E-BooksDirectory.com Introduction The deepest parts of the ocean are totally unknown to us admits Professor Aronnax early in this novel. What goes on in those distant depths What creatures inhabit or could inhabit those regions twelve or fifteen miles beneath the surface of the water It s almost beyond conjecture. Jules Verne 1828-1905 published the French equivalents of these words in 1869 and little has changed since. 126 years later a Time cover story on deep-sea exploration made much the same admission We know more about Mars than we know about the oceans. This reality begins to explain the dark power and otherworldly fascination of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Born in the French river town of Nantes Verne had a lifelong passion for the sea. First as a Paris stockbroker later as a celebrated author and yachtsman he went on frequent voyages to Britain America the Mediterranean. But the specific stimulus for this novel was an 1865 fan letter from a fellow writer Madame George Sand. She praised Verne s two early novels Five Weeks in a Balloon 1863 and Journey to the Center of the Earth 1864 then added Soon I hope you ll take us into the ocean depths your characters traveling in diving equipment perfected by your science and your imagination. Thus inspired Verne created one of literature s great rebels a freedom fighter who plunged beneath the waves to wage a unique form of guerilla warfare. Initially Verne s narrative was influenced by the 1863 uprising of Poland against Tsarist Russia. The Poles were quashed with a violence that appalled not only Verne but all Europe. As originally conceived Verne s Captain Nemo was a Polish nobleman whose entire family had been slaughtered by Russian troops. Nemo builds a fabulous futuristic submarine the Nautilus then conducts an underwater campaign of vengeance against his imperialist oppressor. But in the 1860s France had to treat .