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Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days By Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne


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This is a critical edition of the classic that has been a bestseller for over a century. It features a new English translation which paces the action as rapidly as Phileas Fogg's own race against time.

Around the World in Eighty Days Summary

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

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. Fogg faces despair and suicide, but Aouda makes a new man of him, able to face even the Reform Club again. Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) contains a strong dose of post-Romantic reality plus extensive borrowing from the author's own Journey to England and Scotland - but not a shred of science fiction. Its modernism lies instead in the experimental literary technique, with parallel plots, a narrator constantly made to look foolish, four characters in search of their own unconscious, and a unique twisting of space and time. 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. This book is intended for students of French literature from sixth-form up; students of European modernism, the adventure story and of travel literature.

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GOR004335020
9780192830937
0192830937
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
19950301
252
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