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Presents Jules Verne's classic novel in which a French professor and his two companions sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo, and includes historical context, explanatory notes, excerpts of criticism, discussion questions, and other study tools.
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Jules Verne, maître incontesté de la science-fiction, nous plonge dans le fantastique monde sous-marin de Capitaine Nemo. À bord du Nautilus, l'incroyable submersible tiré de l'imagination de l'auteur près d'un siècle avant son invention, Nemo et ses compagnons de voyage feront le tour du monde. En cette année 1866, une forte angoisse règne sur les océans. Un monstre marin effrayant a été signalé dans diverses mers par plusieurs navires....
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'Immediately a long tentacle reached in through the opening like a snake, and a score of others waved about above it' -- At first they think it is a giant sea monster -- a vast black object, menacing the oceans and causing panic over the world. Yet when Professor Aronnax joins an expedition to hunt down the creature, he and his two companions discover it is a giant submarine, the Nautilus. Captured and held prisoner on board by its captain, Nemo --...
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CLASSIC FICTION. In "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", an obsessive German professor and his nephew travel towards the earth's core in the steps of a medieval explorer beneath an Icelandic volcano where they discover a lost world. "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is famous for its portrayal of the Byronic Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus, in which he explores the ocean while wreaking vengeance on mankind for their wickedness....