Jules Verne 
Vingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Jules verne was born in 1828 at Nantes, a city in the west of France on the Loire, yet having ocean com merce. He was gifted with an almost inexhaustible imagination which he put to use in the creation of a new style of fiction, — a skilful mingling of scientific and other facts with incidents of travel and romance. Rendered in this way somewhat instructive on the one hand and very amusing and animated on the other, his books soon became popular and are so to the present day.