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The novel "Twenty Thousand LeaguesUndertheSeas", part 1 & 2, by the French science fictionwriterJulesVerne as an e-book app featuring voice output(TextToSpeech).● ENGLISH TEXT● ENGLISH VOICE OUTPUTTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingtmillelieuessous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel byFrenchwriterJules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story ofCaptainNemoand his submarine Nautilus, as seen from theperspectiveofProfessor Pierre Aronnax after he, his servantConseil,andCanadian harpoonist Ned Land wash up on their ship.OntheNautilus, the three embark on a journey which has themgoingallaround the world.The description of Nemo's ship, the Nautilus, wasconsideredaheadof its time, as it accurately describes featuresonsubmarines, whichat the time were very primitive vessels.Thus,the book has been ableto age well because of itsscientifictheories, unlike some other ofVerne's works, likeJourney to theCenter of the Earth, which are notscientificallyaccurate andserve more simply as adventurenovels.Back in the late 1800s, ships of several nations spotamysterioussea monster, which some suggest to be a giantnarwhal.The UnitedStates government assembles an expedition in NewYorkCity to findand destroy the monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax,aFrench marinebiologist and narrator of the story, who happenstobe in New York atthe time, receives a last-minute invitationtojoin the expeditionwhich he accepts. Canadian masterharpoonistNed Land and Aronnax'sfaithful servant Conseil are alsobroughtaboard.The expedition departs Brooklyn aboard the UnitedStatesNavyfrigate Abraham Lincoln and travels south around CapeHorn intothePacific Ocean. The ship finds the monster after a longsearchandthen attacks the beast, which damages the ship's rudder.Thethreeprotagonists are then hurled into the water and grasp holdofthe"hide" of the creature, which they find, to their surprise,tobe asubmarine very far ahead of its era. They are quicklycapturedandbrought inside the vessel, where they meet itsenigmaticcreatorand commander, Captain Nemo.The rest of the story follows the adventures oftheprotagonistsaboard the creature—the submarine, theNautilus—whichwas built insecrecy and now roams the seas free fromany land-basedgovernment.Captain Nemo's motivation is implied to beboth ascientific thirstfor knowledge and a desire for revenge on(andself-imposed exilefrom) civilization. Nemo explains thathissubmarine iselectrically powered and can perform advancedmarinebiologyresearch; he also tells his new passengers thatalthoughheappreciates conversing with such an expert asAronnax,maintainingthe secrecy of his existence requires neverletting themleave.Aronnax is enthralled by the undersea vistas, butLandconstantlyplans to escape.E-BOOK FEATURES:● Standalone software - no eBook reader needed● Options menu+ Help page+ Settings page- Text color- Background color- Text size- Text padding- Reset+ Link to all iwpSoftware appsin Android Market+ Go to bookmark+ Set bookmark+ Set current image as wallpaper+ Link to image/item/description● General features+ Voice output(text to speech, TTS)+ Move to SD card+ Clickable table of contents+ English and Germanprogram language+ Contents rotate(portrait/landscape)+ Fullscreen imageson/off by long clickThis app is available as a FREE and a PRO version.TheFREEedition includes ads which finance the development whilethePROedition is completely ad-free. Apart from that bothversionsareequal. You can first check out the FREE edition withoutany riskinorder to to see if you like the app. If the ads annoy youoryoujust want to support this app's development, you can buythePROedition.