Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Resumen del libro

Three adventurers set out to kill a sea monster, but all is not as it seems. Out in the vast expanse of the Pacific they find not a beast but a submarine - the Nautilus, an advanced craft captained by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. Captured and hauled aboard, they accompany him through coral reefs, shipwrecks, and ancient ruins.

There they hunt sharks, and battle giant squid, not realising that the greatest danger is Nemo himself, who will stop at nothing in his quest for vengeance. Beautifully illustrated by the French painter Edouard Riou, who worked with Jules Verne on six of his novels, this Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea also includes an afterword by author David Stuart Davies. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles.

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Biografía del autor

La fértil imaginación de Jules Verne (1828-1905) fue capaz de concebir, en sus novelas de aventuras, mundos e inventos que se han hecho indelebles en la imaginación del hombre moderno. Publicada cinco años antes que "Drácula", "El castillo de los Cárpatos" (1892) no desmerece frente a otras obras suyas más célebres, como "Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino", "Viaje al centro de la Tierra", "La isla misteriosa", "De la Tierra a la Luna" o "La vuelta al mundo en ochenta días", todas ellas publicadas en Alianza Editorial.<br> "La invasión del mar" fue la última novela publicada en vida del autor, en 1905, y no solo no desmerece frente a otras obras suyas más célebres, sino que es considerada una de las más enigmáticas.