Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a good beach read. Jules Verne was ecstatic on March 10, 1868. Verne's best-known work is undoubtedly Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It has held up incredibly well as a classic since it is both escapist delight and still has literary and scientific relevance. Jules Verne, a French author, wrote the classic science fiction adventure book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A World Tour Underwater. The first edition of the book was serialised in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's twice-weekly publication, the Magasin d'ducation et de leisure, from March 1869 to June 1870.
About the Author
William Butcher is a Verne scholar and English Professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He has written extensively on French literature and on natural language processing, and is the author of Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Self: Space and Time in the Voyages Extraordinaires (Palgrave Macmillan, 1990).