The sea monster seen in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is an octopus.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a long novel by French writer Jules Verne, the second installment of the Verne Trilogy (the other two being The Sons and Daughters of Captain Grant and The Mysterious Island). The book **** 2 volumes of 47 chapters. The novel focuses on the story of Aronnus, a naturalist, his servant, Conseil, and harpooner Ned Lang, who traveled around the bottom of the sea with Captain Nemo of the Nautilus submarine.

The first translation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to China was in 1902, titled A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea, which was translated by Lu Yidong and Hong Xisheng from a Japanese translation by Taiping (which was based on an English translation), and was originally serialized in New Novels, which, unfortunately, did not run to completion.

Expanded Information

1. Setting

"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" is also known as "Adventures Under the Sea" and "60,000 Leagues Under the Sea". "Twenty thousand miles under the sea" does not mean that 20,000 miles deep below the sea floor, but the Nautilus submarine sailing 20,000 miles in the sea. The "li" in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" is not the usual definition of "li", which is lieue in the original French, and is officially translated as " Liger".

The liege was one of the standard lengths used in ancient Europe, but it was not uniformly interpreted and varied from country to country in the metric system. In France, the home country of the author Verne, this unit of distance had long fallen into disuse, and even during its use lacked standardization. The title of the novel has also been translated as "Sixty Thousand Miles Under the Sea", since the British "leagues" are equal to three miles.

2. Artistic Characteristics

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is one of Verne's masterpieces, representing Verne's colorful imagination and meticulous and delicate writing. The plot of the novel is eccentric and bizarre, vividly depicting the mysterious undersea world; the language is vivid and interesting, which is both the language of art and the language of science, and the description of various undersea things is unique and exquisite.

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