Vern's Four Great Science Fiction Masterpieces - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Illustrated Edition)

Author: Jules Verne (France), translated by Wen Lihua
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Features: "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" recounts a strange, mysterious, and unexplained incident that occurred at sea in 1866. Let alone the various rumors that stirred coastal residents and global public opinion at the time, this story focuses on the heightened excitement among general seafarers. Import and export merchants, ship captains, shipowners, naval officers and officials from various countries, as well as governments from these two continents, all paid close attention to this matter. Here’s how the incident went: Recently, several large ships encountered a "giant creature" at sea—a long, spindle-shaped object that sometimes emitted phosphorescent light. Its size was far larger than that of a whale, and it moved much faster than a whale. The facts recorded in many navigational logs about this object’s appearance (such as its shape, the unestimated speed during movement, the astonishing force it exerted, and its seemingly innate special abilities) were largely consistent. If this creature were a type of whale, its size would greatly exceed the classifications biologists had previously made.