Around the world in eighty days
This Penguin Classic offers a stirring, new tanslation of the ever-popular adventure story.
| Main Author: | Verne, Jules, 1828-1905. |
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| Other Authors: | Glencross, Michael (Translator), Aldiss, Brian W. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English French |
| Published: |
New York :
Penguin Group,
2004.
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| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
This Penguin Classic offers a stirring, new tanslation of the ever-popular adventure story. In 1872 Phileas Fogg wagers that he can circle the earth in eighty days and traveling by steamer, railway, carriage, sledge, and elephant he wins his bet in seventy-nine days, twenty-three hours, and fifty-seven minutes. |
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| Item Description: |
Translation of: Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours. |
| Physical Description: |
248 pages |
| ISBN: |
9780140449068 014044906X |
| Author Notes: |
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, SF historian and critic. His lastest work is Super-State- A Novel of Future Europe (2002). |