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Around the World in Eighty Days Paperback - 2004

by Jules Verne; Michael Glencross (Translator); Introduction by Brian Aldiss

This Penguin Classic offers a stirring, new tanslation of the ever-popular adventure story.


Summary

Jules Verne’s career as a novelist began in 1863, when he struck a new vein in fiction—stories that combined popular science and exploration. In Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days—and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompanied by his hot-blooded French manservant, Passepartout. Traveling by train, steamship, sailboat, sledge, and even elephant, they must overcome storms, kidnappings, natural disasters, Sioux attacks, and the dogged Inspector Fix of Scotland Yard to win the extraordinary wager. Combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race against time, Around the World in Eighty Days gripped audiences upon its publication and remains hugely popular to this day.

  • Introduction by acclaimed science fiction writer Brian Aldiss
  • Includes chronology, suggestions for further reading, and explanatory notes

From the publisher

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 - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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  • Title Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Author Jules Verne; Michael Glencross (Translator); Introduction by Brian Aldiss
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, New York, New York
  • Date 2004-05-04
  • Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780140449068 / 014044906X
  • Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.88 x 5.08 x 0.7 in (20.02 x 12.90 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1070
  • Library of Congress subjects Adventure stories, Voyages around the world
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 07/06/2004, Page 94

About the author

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, SF historian and critic.

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