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    20000 Leagues Under the Sea
    Audiobook16 hours

    20000 Leagues Under the Sea

    Written by Victor Hugo

    Narrated by Alexandra Coles

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    About this audiobook

    Originally published 1870, this recording is from the English translation by Frederick P. Walter, published 1991, containing the unabridged text from the original French and offered up into the public domain. It is considered to be the very first science fiction novel ever written, the first novel about the undersea world, and is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrontPage Publishing Audio
    Release dateOct 14, 2018
    ISBN9782291041870
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    20000 Leagues Under the Sea
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    Victor Hugo

    The best-known of the French Romantic writers, Victor Hugo was a poet, novelist, dramatist, and political critic. Hugo was an avid supporter of French republicanism and advocate for social and political equality, themes that reflect most strongly in his works Les Misérables, Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), and Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (The Last Day of a Condemned Man). Hugo’s literary works were successful from the outset, earning him a pension from Louis XVIII and membership in the prestigious Académie française, and influencing the work of literary figures such as Albert Camus, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Elevated to the peerage by King Louis-Philippe, Hugo played an active role in French politics through the 1848 Revolution and into the Second and Third Republics. Hugo died in 1885, revered not only for his influence on French literature, but also for his role in shaping French democracy. He is buried in the Panthéon alongside Alexandre Dumas and Émile Zola.

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    • 5/5
      fiction & fact, futurism & history, science fiction begins here

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    • 2/5
      Narrator has strong American accent, very difficult to listen to. Audio quality is subpar. Could not get far in before bailing. Perhaps it gets better later.

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