Around the World in Eighty Days by Verne, Jules (9780141366296)

Around the World in Eighty Days

by Verne, Jules

Paperback - English

Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix, a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of a notorious bank robber. Set from the text of George M. Towle's original 1873 translation, this Modern Library Paperback Classic of Verne's adventure novel comes vividly alive, brilliantly reﬂecting on time, space, and one man's struggle to reach beyond the bounds of both science and society.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

014136629X

EAN

9780141366296

Publisher

PUFFIN BOOKS

Publication Date

11 Oct 2016

Pages

304

Age Group

8 to 12

Grades

03 to 07

Weight (kg)

0.20

Dimensions (cm)

17.5 x 12.7 x 2.3

Lexile Level

890

About Author

Jules Verne was a French writer and pioneer of the science fiction genre through novels like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, and The Mysterious Island. A visionary, Verne wrote about air, space, and underwater travel long before the ability to travel in these realms was invented, and his works remain amongst the most translated, most continually reprinted, and most widely read books of all time. Jules Verne died in 1905 having paved the way for future science fiction writers and enthusiasts.