| Around the World in Eighty Days Contributor(s): Hynes, James (Introduction by), Verne, Jules (Author) |
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ISBN: 076079362X ISBN-13: 9780760793626 Publisher: Barnes & Noble OUR PRICE: $8.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2010290144 |
| Lexile Measure: 500 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.60 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Around the World in Eighty Days, published originally as a newspaper serial in 1872 and released as a book the following year was well received in both formats. Its hero, Phileas Fogg, is a leisured but taciturn Londoner of such mathematically precise habits that he has fired his servant for bringing him shaving water two degrees too cold. Over a game of cards, Fogg wagers twenty thousand pounds that he can travel around the world in eighty days or less. What follows is a headlong adventure full of trains, ships, elephants, and wind sledges, not to mention human sacrifice, duels, and Indian attacks. A successful combination of modern speed and period quaintness, Around the World in Eighty Days has become a delightful, timeless, steam-driven classic. |