“Captain Nemo stood up. I followed him. Contrived at the rear of the dining room, a double door opened, and I entered a room whose dimensions equaled the one I had just left.
It was a library. Tall, black-rosewood bookcases, inlaid with copperwork, held on their wide shelves a large number of uniformly bound books. These furnishings followed the contours of the room, their lower parts leading to huge couches upholstered in maroon leather and curved for maximum comfort. Light, movable reading stands, which could be pushed away or pulled near as desired, allowed books to be positioned on them for easy study. In the center stood a huge table covered with pamphlets, among which some newspapers, long out of date, were visible. Electric light flooded this whole harmonious totality, falling from four frosted half globes set in the scrollwork of the ceiling. I stared in genuine wonderment at this room so ingeniously laid out, and I couldn’t believe my eyes.”

This passage describes the Nautilus, Captain Nemo's fictional submarine. We can read about submarines in the fantastic works by Jules Verne "Twenty thousand leagues under the sea" and "The Mysterious Island".

The discovery of Jules Verne remains relevant in our time. A lot of scientists were inspired by his "Nautilus" and invented modern submarines. Jules Verne made a great contribution to the history of underwater navigation.

Альхимович Виктория, 

ученица 9 Б класса МАОУ СОШ № 12 имени маршала Советского Союза К.К. Рокоссовского г. Великие Луки Псковской области

(учитель английского языка - Тимофеева Марина Алексеевна).