Around the World in Eighty Days: 5 Weeks in a Balloon (Wordsworth Classics)

Jules Verne

ISBN 10: 1853260908 / ISBN 13: 9781853260902

Published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Around the World in Eighty Days: 5 Weeks in a Balloon (Wordsworth Classics)
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853260908
• ISBN 13: 9781853260902
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 8 ounces

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Synopsis

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. Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was Verne's first novel. It documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a hydrogen balloon designed by the omniscient, imperturbable and ever capable Dr Fergusson, the prototype of the Vernian adventurer.

About the 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.