Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne in Hungarian 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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1866-ban furcsa és titokzatos dolog történt.
In 1866, something strange and mysterious happened.
Senki sem felejtette el.
No one has forgotten it.
Mindenhol beszéltek róla az emberek, még a tengertől távol is.
People talked about it everywhere, even far from the sea.
De a tengerészek voltak a legizgatottabbak mind közül.
But sailors were the most excited of all.
Európai és amerikai kereskedők, tengerészek és hajóskapitányok nagyon érdeklődtek iránta.
Merchants, sailors, and ship captains from Europe and America were very interested in it.
A haditengerészeti tisztek is érdeklődtek iránta sok országból.
Navy officers from many countries were interested too.
Európában és Amerikában még néhány kormány is többet akart tudni.
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