Twenty Thousand Leagues, 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.
Retold for sleep from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, first published in 1870 and long out of copyright. The story is Verne's; every sentence here is our own.
Grounded and even, the same calm weight on every line, present without pushing, steady when the moment isn't.
About this session
Twenty Thousand Leagues, The Pearl of Ceylon is a sleep story from Salūs, a long bedtime story for adults, read slowly at a bedtime pace by Marco Vella.
Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.