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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'' ((フランス語:Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin), literally ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World'') is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870.
The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's periodical, the ''Magasin d’Éducation et de Récréation''. The deluxe illustrated edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871, included 111 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou. The book was highly acclaimed when released and still is now; it is 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''. The description of Nemo's ship, called the Nautilus, was considered ahead of its time, as it accurately describes features on submarines, which at the time were very primitive vessels. Thus, the book has been able to age well because of its scientific theories, unlike some of Verne's other works, like ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'', which are not scientifically accurate and serve more simply as adventure novels.
==Title==
The title refers to the distance traveled while under the sea and not to a depth, as 20,000 leagues is over six times the diameter, and nearly three times the circumference of the Earth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=(20000 leagues) ÷ (diameter of earth) - Wolfram|Alpha )〕 The greatest depth mentioned in the book is four leagues. (The book uses metric leagues, which are four kilometres each.〔Part 2, Chapter 7 "Accordingly, our speed was 25 miles (that is, twelve four–kilometer leagues) per hour. Needless to say, Ned Land had to give up his escape plans, much to his distress. Swept along would have been like jumping off a train racing at this speed, a rash move if there ever was one."〕) A literal translation of the French title would end in the plural "seas", thus implying the "seven seas" through which the characters of the novel travel; however, the early English translations of the title used "sea", meaning the ocean in general.
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