Twenty thousand leagues under the sea

Verne's classic that vindicates the freedom and constructive ingenuity of its protagonist. When Verne devised the construction of the Nautilus, he wrote to Hetzel, his publisher and friend: "I assure you that your ark will be better equipped than Noah's." Verne, who had already visited the centers of the Earth and the air, wanted to descend into the abysses of the sea. He imagined an epic character, the tormented Captain Nemo, a wise disappointment ado of the human race, who is moved by one of those obsessive claims so t iconic of the adventure novel.