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Жюль Верн. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
History of Collins
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 A Floating Reef
CHAPTER 2 For and Against
CHAPTER 3 As Monsieur Pleases
CHAPTER 4 Ned Land
CHAPTER 5 At Random
CHAPTER 6 With all Steam on
CHAPTER 7 A Whale of an Unknown Species
CHAPTER 8 Mobilis in Mobile
CHAPTER 9 Ned Land’s Anger
CHAPTER 10 Nemo
CHAPTER 11 The ‘Nautilus’
CHAPTER 12 Everything by Electricity
CHAPTER 13 Figures
CHAPTER 14 The Black River
CHAPTER 15 A Written Invitation
CHAPTER 16 At the Bottom of the Sea
CHAPTER 17 A Submarine Forest
CHAPTER 18 Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific
CHAPTER 19 Vanikoro
CHAPTER 20 Torres Straits
CHAPTER 21 Some Days on Land
CHAPTER 22 Captain Nemo’s Thunderbolt
CHAPTER 23 Aegri Somnia
CHAPTER 24 The Coral Kingdom
CHAPTER 25 The Indian Ocean
CHAPTER 26 A Fresh Proposition of Captain Nemo’s
CHAPTER 27 A Pearl Worth Ten Millions
CHAPTER 28 The Red Sea
CHAPTER 29 The Arabian Tunnel
CHAPTER 30 The Grecian Archipelago
CHAPTER 31 The Mediterranean in Forty-Eight Hours
CHAPTER 32 Vigo Bay
CHAPTER 33 A Vanished Continent
CHAPTER 34 Submarine Coalfields
CHAPTER 35 The Sargasso Sea
CHAPTER 36 Cachalots and Whales
CHAPTER 37 The Ice-Bank
CHAPTER 38 The South Pole
CHAPTER 39 Accident or Incident?
CHAPTER 40 Want of Air
CHAPTER 41 From Cape Horn to the Amazon
CHAPTER 42 Poulps
CHAPTER 43 The Gulf Stream
CHAPTER 44 In Latitude 47° 24′ and Longitude 17° 18′
CHAPTER 45 A Hecatomb
CHAPTER 46 Captain Nemo’s Last Words
CHAPTER 47 Conclusion
CLASSIC LITERATURE: WORDS AND PHRASES
About the Author. Life & Times
Verne’s Prophecy
Copyright
About the Publisher
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In 1819, Millworker William Collins from Glasgow, Scotland, set up a company for printing and publishing pamphlets, sermons, hymn books and prayer books. That company was Collins and was to mark the birth of HarperCollins Publishers as we know it today. The long tradition of Collins dictionary publishing can be traced back to the first dictionary William published in 1824, Greek and English Lexicon. Indeed, from 1840 onwards, he began to produce illustrated dictionaries and even obtained a licence to print and publish the Bible.
Soon after, William published the first Collins novel, Ready Reckoner, however it was the time of the Long Depression, where harvests were poor, prices were high, potato crops had failed and violence was erupting in Europe. As a result, many factories across the country were forced to close down and William chose to retire in 1846, partly due to the hardships he was facing.
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CHAPTER 46 Captain Nemo’s Last Words
CHAPTER 47 Conclusion
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