Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne, 1870.
A professor sets out to hunt a sea monster and finds instead the submarine Nautilus and its mysterious captain, Nemo. As a guest who cannot leave, he sees underwater forests, coral graves, the South Pole, and lost Atlantis. Verne fills the voyage with real science of his time.
Public-domain text. First published in 1870; Jules Verne died in 1905, so this text is in the public domain in the US, Canada, the EU and India. Summary and notes written by ViralScopeHub.