Jules Verne

Broschiertes Buch

Around the World in Eighty Days

Beschreibung

One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. He sets off with his valet Passepartout, and passes through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and racing against the clock.

Autor

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).

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Produktdetails

• Penguin Red Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 293
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 180mm x 111mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 220g
• ISBN-13: 9780141035871
• ISBN-10: 0141035870
• Artikelnr.: 23136587