Around the World in Eighty Days

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Around the World in Eighty Days
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jules Verne
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:304
Dimensions(mm): Height 181,Width 111
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780141035871
ClassificationsDewey:843.8
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication Date 29 May 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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. His lastest work is Super-State- A Novel of Future Europe (2002).