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Around the World in Eighty Days
Availability:In StockContributor:Jules Verne, Michael Glencross (Translator), Brian Aldiss (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:5/4/2004Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140449068ISBN-10:014044906XUPC:9780140449068Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Science Fiction, LiteraryBook Topic:Action & AdventureSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC3PR0D8Y4

Around the World in Eighty Days

Verne's classic novel of global voyaging

One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand -...
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140449068ISBN-10:014044906XUPC:9780140449068Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Science Fiction, LiteraryBook Topic:Action & AdventureSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC3PR0D8Y4
In 1863, Jules Verne (1828-1905) published Five Weeks in a Balloon, and struck a new vein in fiction - stories that combined popular science and exploration. He wrote 54 novels in the Extraordinary Voyages series.

Michael Glencross, the translator, has written widely on French literature and culture.

Brian Aldiss is a distinguished Science Fiction writer as well as a poet, essayist, dramatist,...
Publisher: Penguin Classics

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