Around the World in 80 Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon
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Binding: Paperback
384 pages
Publisher: Wordsworth
Language: English
Level: Advance
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Package Dimensions: 5 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounce
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. University of Kent at Canterbury
Translations are by Paul Desages (Around the World in Eighty Days) and Arthur Chambers (Five Weeks in a Balloon)
JULES VERNE (1828-1905) POSSESSED that rare storyteller's gift of being able to present the far-fetched and the downright unbelievable in such a way as effortlessly to inspire his reader's allegiance and trust. This volume contains two of his best-loved yarns, chosen from among the sixty-four titles of Les Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne's pioneering contribution to the canon of modern science fiction
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds - but only just! - in circling the globe within eighty days. The dour Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant, Passepartout, whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour and suspense to the race against time
