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Books for readers who love the submarine adventure and the Romantic rebel who has renounced civilization
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) is Jules Verne's masterpiece — Captain Nemo commanding the Nautilus as a Romantic rebel who has rejected all terrestrial civilization. These 8 books share its claustrophobic adventure, its magnificent unknown world, and its brooding captain.
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Buy on AmazonL'Île mystérieuse
by Jules Verne
The direct sequel — castaways on a volcanic island, and Nemo's backstory finally partially revealed in the dramatic finale
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Buy on AmazonVoyage au centre de la Terre
by Jules Verne
The companion Voyages extraordinaire — the Earth's interior as the other great unknown space; Professor Lidenbrock's manic certainty and Nemo's brooding withdrawal are the two poles of Verne's explorer
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Buy on AmazonLe Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
by Jules Verne
The contrasting Verne adventure — Fogg's race around the surface of the world versus Nemo's withdrawal beneath it; the same Vernian precision applied to very different temperaments
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Buy on AmazonMoby-Dick
by Herman Melville
The closest literary equivalent — Ahab's obsessive pursuit of the white whale and Nemo's obsessive possession of the deep share the same Romantic structure of a man consumed by a relationship with the ocean that no one else can understand
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The Mysterious Island
by Jules Verne
An alternate translation of L'Île mystérieuse — Nemo's final appearance; the castaways who rebuild civilization find their secret benefactor
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Around the World in 80 Days
by Jules Verne
Phileas Fogg's race across the surface of the globe — the comic, social version of Vernian adventure that contrasts perfectly with Nemo's brooding rejection of all society
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Buy on AmazonThe Hunt for Red October
by Tom Clancy
The modern submarine thriller that directly inherits Verne's Nautilus — the submarine as claustrophobic secret world, the captain as figure of hidden purpose and overwhelming competence
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Buy on AmazonTreasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The companion Victorian adventure classic — Jim Hawkins's buried treasure as the other great imaginative treasure of nineteenth-century adventure fiction; Verne and Stevenson together defined the adventure novel for a century
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