Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne. It was originally serialised from March 1869 to June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's French
Frontispiece of 1871 edition
Illustration by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou
Illustration of the Nautilus by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou
1956 cover of "Collins Seagull Library" abridged edition of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Nautilus is the fictional submarine belonging to Captain Nemo featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and The Mysterious Island.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
…works, along with Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Michael Strogoff. Its depiction of Captain Nemo's submarine, Nautilus, is regarded as ahead of its time, as it accurately describes many features of modern submarines, which in the 1860s were comparatively primitive…
Nautilus, as pictured in The Mysterious Island
Captain Nemo and Professor Aronnax discussing the plans of Nautilus
The Grand Salon of Nautilus