Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne in Spanish and English, a parallel text graded reader with audio. Available in CEFR levels A2, B1, and B2.
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In 1866, the world's oceans hold a rumor with teeth. Ships are struck without warning, an iron hull punched through as if by design, and the public cries out for the seas to be cleared of a monster. Into this Jules Verne sends Professor Pierre Aronnax, a Parisian naturalist just home from Nebraska, who theorizes the creature is a colossal narwhal and finds himself aboard the American frigate Abraham Lincoln, hunting it across the Atlantic. With him go his unshakably devoted servant Conseil and Ned Land, the skeptical Canadian harpooner who insists, from the start, that the beast is "made of sheet iron."
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En 1866 pasó algo extraño y misterioso.
In 1866, something strange and mysterious happened.
Nadie lo ha olvidado.
No one has forgotten it.
La gente hablaba de ello en todas partes, incluso lejos del mar.
People talked about it everywhere, even far from the sea.
Pero los marineros eran los más emocionados de todos.
But sailors were the most excited of all.
A los comerciantes, marineros y capitanes de barco de Europa y América les interesaba mucho.
Merchants, sailors, and ship captains from Europe and America were very interested in it.
A los oficiales de la marina de muchos países también les interesaba.
Navy officers from many countries were interested too.
Incluso algunos gobiernos de Europa y América querían saber más.
Even some governments in Europe and America wanted to know more.
History
- Written by Jules Verne in French
- Adapted by Line by Line Publishing in 2026