Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the Moon

by Jules Verne

Part of Platt & Munk's Great Writers Collection
Foreword by Isaac Asimov

Genres: Science Fiction, Classics, Fiction

549 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1965

About the author

Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).

Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."

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Reviews

[Michael Fierce · Rating 5 out of 5]

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I was given this edition for Christmas when I was 10 years old and it will forever be one of my all-time favorites.

[Ally · Rating 1 out of 5]

It was revolutionary for its time.

[Lee Edgerton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Obviously a classic. I enjoyed both stories albeit woefully inaccurate as far as our understanding of things 150 years ago. Worth the read though, if only as a story in how we perceived science, technology and the universe back then.

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[Sharon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Only read 20000 Leagues Under the Sea for now, will likely check out Around the Moon at a later time. I do not generally read Science Fiction but really enjoyed this adventure.

[Nirupama P.R.V. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Classic and entertaining!