Twenty Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne (Annotated) : Hardcover Book

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A World Tour Underwater (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin) is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne.

The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's fortnightly periodical, the Magasin d'education et de recreation. A deluxe octavo edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871, included 111 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou.The book was widely acclaimed on its release and remains so; it's regarded as one of the premiere adventure novels and one of Verne's greatest works, along with Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Its depiction of Captain Nemo's underwater ship, the Nautilus, is regarded as ahead of its time, since it accurately describes many features of today's submarines, which in the 1860s were comparatively primitive vessels.

Here is the complete text of the novel with the followings annotations:

*Biographical Information:

Studies in Paris

Paris In July 1848, Verne left Nantes once again for Paris, exactly where the father of his intended him to complete law research and also use up law as a career. He obtained authorization from the father of his to lease a furnished apartment at twenty four Rue de l 'Ancienne Comedie, which he shared with Edouard Bonamy, another pupil of Nantes origin.(On his 1847 Paris visit, Verne had remained at two Rue Therese, the home of the aunt Charuel of his, on the Butte Saint-Roch.)