A huge sea monster has attacked and wrecked several ships from beneath the sea. Professor Aronnax bravely joins a mission to hunt down the beast. He goes aboard the Nautilus, a secret submarine helmed by the mysterious Captain Nemo.

At first, the mission is exciting, as Nemo takes Aronnax on a voyage around the underwater world. But when things start to go wrong, Aronnax finds there’s no escape from the Nautilus. He is now Captain Nemo’s captive -- 20,000 leagues under the sea!

  Sir Isaac Newton, the great scientist who formulated the theory of gravity, is reported to have explained his startling achievements by saying, "I have stood on the shoulders of giants."

  Anyone who writes science fiction today knows that he or she is also standing on the shoulders of a giant -- a giant named Jules Verne.

PART ONE

1. A Shifting Reef

2. Pro and Con

3. I Form My Resolution

4. Ned Land

5. At a Venture

6. At Full Steam

7. An Unknown Species of Whale

8. Mobilis in Mobili

9. Ned Land's Tempers

10. The Man of the Seas

11. All by Electricity

12. Some Figures

13. The Black River

14. A Note of Invitation

15. A Walk on the Bottom of the Sea

16. A Submarine Forest

17. Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific

18. Vanikoro

19. Tortes Straits

20. A Few Days on Land

21. Captain Nemo's Thunderbolt

22. "AEgri Somnia"

23. The Coral Kingdom

PART TWO

1. The Indian Ocean

2. A Novel Proposal of Captain Nemo's

3. A Pearl of Ten Millions

4. The Red Sea

5. The Arabian Tunnel

6. The Grecian Archipelago

7. The Mediterranean in Forty-Eight Hours

8. Vigo Bay

9. A Vanished Continent

10. The Submarine Coal Mines

11. The Sargasso Sea

12. Cachalots and Whales

13. The Iceberg

14. The South Pole

15. Accident or Incident

16. Want of Air

17. From Cape Horn to the Amazon

18. The Poulps

19. The Gulf Stream

20. From Latitude 47° 24' Longitude 17° 28'

21. A Hecatomb

22. The Last Words of Captain Nemo

23. Conclusion