2000 Leagues Under the Sea Author:Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is perhaps the best known and the most typical of Jules Verne's nove.s. In this, as in all his novels, he brings into play the effective and imaginative use of science as a framework for his stories. In creating the fantistic Nautilusk he predicted the invention of the submarine. — The idealistic, truth-see... more »king Captain Nemo is the master of the Nautilus, whose voyage turns out to be the strangtest and most adventurous in modern literature. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea remains to this day a classic in its field.« less