Leyden ball Leyden ball A Leyden ball is a fictional bullet used in the nineteenth century Jules Verne science fiction novel, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". It contains a capacitance charge of electrical energy, which discharges instantaneously upon the bullet's impact. A similar, but more complex non-lethal electronic weapon, meant to disable people, has been developed for police use in the modern day. In his 1870 science fiction classic "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", Jules Verne wrote about a hunting expedition using a very unusual form of bullet: the balls sent by this gun are not ordinary balls, but little
The Sea Wall (novel) and is autobiographical in inspiration. Joseph<br> Suzanne <br> (The name of Suzanne refers to the Bible and the episode of "Susanna and the Elders" or "Suzanne in the bath", which here is replayed as Monsieur Jo asking to see Suzanne naked in the shower.) The mother <br> Monsieur Jo<br> Carmen <br> The Sea Wall (novel) The Sea Wall () is a 1950 novel by the French writer Marguerite Duras. It was adapted for film in 1958 as "This Angry Age" and in 2008 as "The Sea Wall". Inspired largely by her own adolescence in French Indochina, Duras wrote this novel