Around the world in eighty days / Jules Verne; translated by G.M. Towle.

By:

Verne, Jules, 1828-1905

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Books of Wonder, Morrow, [1988]Description: 242 p., [16] leaves of plates : col. ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:

9780553213560
0553213563

Other title:

Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours [Other title]

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Genre/Form:

Adventure fiction

DDC classification:

843.8 19

Summary: Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in 1873, and today Around the World in Eighty Days remains Jules Verne's most successful novel. A daring wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and exciting suspense story. Together with his manservant, Passepartout, Fogg makes a breathless world tour, overcoming wild misadventures and finding time to rescue a beautiful Indian maharani from a burning funeral pyre-all the while restlessly pursued by a bumbling detective called Mr. Fix. Realistically utilizing nearly every means of transportation known in the 1870s, Around the World in Eighty Days generated enchantment with scientific progress-and its delightful mixture of fantasy, comedy, and dazzling suspense has kept it a perennially superb entertainment. Read less

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main library General Stacks	843.8 / VE.A 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		001654

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Translation of: Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours.

Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in 1873, and today Around the World in Eighty Days remains Jules Verne's most successful novel. A daring wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and exciting suspense story. Together with his manservant, Passepartout, Fogg makes a breathless world tour, overcoming wild misadventures and finding time to rescue a beautiful Indian maharani from a burning funeral pyre-all the while restlessly pursued by a bumbling detective called Mr. Fix. Realistically utilizing nearly every means of transportation known in the 1870s, Around the World in Eighty Days generated enchantment with scientific progress-and its delightful mixture of fantasy, comedy, and dazzling suspense has kept it a perennially superb entertainment. Read less

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