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🎧 Audiobook Excerpt from Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Read by Chapter Breaks – Short Literary Escapes. Classic audio pills for your commute, bedtime unwind, or a break anytime. At Chapter Breaks, we carefully select and curate iconic passages from classic novels — timeless opening chapters, dramatic turning points, or unforgettable finales. Each episode is around 20–30 minutes, designed to let you dip into great literature without the commitment of a full audiobook. Jules Verne – Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Part I, Chapters 7 & 8 | The Fall into the Sea & First Encounter with the Nautilus. Beneath the waves, wonder meets the unknown. Cast into the open ocean after the collision with the mysterious “monster,” Professor Aronnax and his loyal servant Conseil struggle through exhaustion, cold, and silence — until a voice rises through the night. What they find is no creature of the deep, but something far stranger: a vast, metallic beast whose surface rings with the sound of steel. In this dramatic turning point of Verne’s novel, Ned Land reveals the truth — the so-called narwhal is a machine. A submarine of unprecedented scale and power. Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned cling to its back until dawn, when masked sailors emerge and seize them, dragging them inside the legendary vessel: the Nautilus. It is the moment the mystery becomes reality, the threshold between the known world and the wonders waiting beneath the waves. We are about to step onto that steel deck for the first time — into Captain Nemo’s domain, and into one of literature’s most iconic voyages. Let's open the page together, your chapter break begins now. If you enjoy classic literature, quiet storytelling, and immersive audiobook excerpts, listen, follow and share to help us bring more classics to life!

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