Story · France · 1870
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
50Watch it awake.
The sea is wonderful, and the book will not call Nemo's war right.
The review
We read it the way it asks, a child with a parent nearby. Verne puts a professor on a submarine he didn't choose. The captain has quit the land. The sea is the wonder. Nemo's war is his own, and I kept waiting for a clear yes or no on whether he is right. The book doesn't quite give one.
I yawned and didn't mind. The 1916 picture and the 1954 one aren't these pages. You've got a captive professor, a man done with nations, and a question left open. I'd leave it open at the table too. Wonder isn't a verdict.
Journal
Keep Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 50. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Heidi
64 instead of 50
Heidi is still a novel film, and it scores 64 instead of 50. What you gain is household: A girl left with her grandfather thaws him, and that bond is the life.
The eight
- 7Industry
A professor studies the sea from a working submarine.
- 2Household
The captain quit the land, and no household sails with him.
- 5Piety
The book never quite settles whether Nemo's war is right.
- 6Courage
The professor is taken aboard and kept at sea under Nemo.
- 5Republic
Nemo's war is his own, quit of the lands other people share.
- 5Temperance
The sea is the wonder; the war is a want the book won't bless.
- 6Truth
Verne leaves Nemo's rightness open instead of forcing it.
- 4Stewardship
He spends the sea on a private war and leaves that unsettled.
Where to read
Finding the page.
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