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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and other Classic Novels

by Jules Verne · 1948

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Writing in France in the nineteenth century, Jules Verne captured his era's fascination with adventure and exploration in a series of novels he referred to as his Voyages extraordinaries. This book collects six of Verne's best-known novels that extrapolate developing technology and scientific inquisitiveness into rousing adventures.

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Five weeks in a balloon —

Journey to the center of the earth —

From the earth to the moon —

Round the moon —

Twenty thousand leagues under the sea —

Around the world in eighty days.

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science fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thisadventureadventureMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrensyoung adult
Length
epic · 739 pages

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