A serialised classic, retold for sleep

Twenty Thousand Leagues, night by night.

Twenty Thousand Leagues, night by night. The deep sea at a drift — the Nautilus, its silent captain, and the slow wonders of the world beneath the waves, retold in our own words from a public-domain translation of Verne's 1870 original. Each night is a long, slow session of a chapter or three, read by a calm voice with long silences. Take them in order, or open the night that suits the evening. The nights are planned and on their way; every night below switches on the night it is ready. The story is Verne's; every sentence here is our own.

Serialised classic

The Nights

The whole book, retold slowly for sleep. Each night switches on the night it is ready.

10 nights
Twenty Thousand Leagues — Night 1: A Shifting Reef
Coming soon Night 1 — A Shifting Reef Rumours of a sea-monster cross the oceans, and a quiet professor joins the hunt aboard a steam frigate.
Twenty Thousand Leagues — Night 2: The Man of the Seas
Coming soon Night 2 — The Man of the Seas A night in the water, a hull of steel underfoot, and the first meeting with the man who sails beneath the sea.
Twenty Thousand Leagues — Night 3: The Nautilus
Coming soon Night 3 — The Nautilus Captain Nemo shows his guest the impossible ship — the library, the salon, and the sea framed like a painting.
Twenty Thousand Leagues — Night 4: The Forests of Crespo
Coming soon Night 4 — The Forests of Crespo A walk on the ocean floor — undersea forests, slow light, and footsteps where no footsteps should be.
Twenty Thousand Leagues — Night 5: The Coral Kingdom
Coming soon Night 5 — The Coral Kingdom Torres Strait, islands off the chart, and a garden of coral in the quietest waters of the world.
Twenty Thousand Leagues — Night 6: The Pearl of Ceylon
Coming soon Night 6 — The Pearl of Ceylon The Indian Ocean, a pearl the size of a lamp... a pearl beyond price, and a diver watched over from the shadows.
Twenty Thousand Leagues — Night 7: The Arabian Tunnel
Coming soon Night 7 — The Arabian Tunnel A secret passage beneath the desert joins two seas, and the Nautilus threads it in the dark.
Twenty Thousand Leagues — Night 8: The Lost City
Coming soon Night 8 — The Lost City By lantern-glow of the sea itself, the ruins of a drowned city rise from the floor of the Atlantic.
Twenty Thousand Leagues — Night 9: The Great Ice
Coming soon Night 9 — The Great Ice South, and further south — ice above, ice below, and open water at the bottom of the world.
Twenty Thousand Leagues — Night 10: The Open Sea
Coming soon Night 10 — The Open Sea The long way home — great storms weathered from below, a last look at the flag, and the sea keeping its secret.
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