英文原版12-20000Leagues Under the Sea(海底两万里)

Several warships have been involved in strange。aceidents at sea，and ProfessorAronnax isj dispatched to investigate sightings of a peculiar kind Of monster described by Survivors is it a whale,Orpossibly a narwhal? The—Professor'stheories have to be hastiIy revised when，affer their ship founders。he finds himself inside a giant Submarine and meets the bizarre Captain Nemo.
Whal are the crew oflheNautIlus trying to achieve?Will the Professor escaple?JuIes verne's sci-fi adventure is a grippingread，fuIl of authentic scientlfIc，knowIedge．which predicled the invention of poweredsIubmarnes a quarter of al century beforethty became a reaIity．

JuIes Verne was。born in 1828 ln Nantes。France and as a child he ran off to become a cabin boy on a merchant shop,until he was discovered and returned to his parents He trained aS a Iawyer and mover to Paris literature Was aIways his passinon.He Was ntroduced to a theatrical set by his unCle and had his One-act pIaly，The Broken straws staged in 1850
His firist successful story,Five weeks．In a Balloon(1863)，formed part of a seriescalIed "Extraordinary Journeys" thatcombined contenporary scientificknoWledge with traVelogue.A Journey to.the Centre of the Earth(1864),From the。Earth to the moon(1866) and 20,000Leagues Under the Sea(1869)continuedthe serie and in Around the world inEighty Days(1873),hiS hero PhlileasFogg aecepts the challenge descrlbed In the title
Verne's books captured the popular imagination in an era when there was anuncritical fascination with scientiFicinnovation but his early enthusiasn fOrtechnololgy turned to pessimism abouttne tUture of ciViIizatlon in his later yeas.He died in A ens in 1905，hayingproduced sixly-five noVeIs，thirty pIaysand msny shorter works Along with H.G.welis he is acknowledged as one of thefoulnding fathers of the tener or science fiCtllon