Around the world in eighty days:
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Main Author: Verne, Jules (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford New York 1999
Series:Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxvii-xli)
Introduction; Note on the Text and Translation; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Jules Verne; AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS; Appendix A. Principal Sources; Appendix B. The Play; Appendix C. 'Around the World' as Seen by the Critics; Explanatory Notes
Jules Verne's classic, a bestseller for over a century, has never appeared in a critical edition before. William Butcher's stylish new translation moves as fast and as brilliantly as Fogg's own journey. - ;Having assured the members of London's exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg - stiff, repressed, English - starts by joining forces with an irrepressible Frenchman, Passepartout, and then with a ravishing Indian beauty, Aouda. Together they slice through jungles, over snowbound passes, even across an entire isthmus - only to get back five mintues late
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xlv, 247 pages)
ISBN:0191569666
0192837788
9780191569661
9780192837783

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