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Around the World in Eighty Days - Couverture souple

Verne, Jules

 
9780192830937: Around the World in Eighty Days
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0192830937 ISBN 13 : 9780192830937
Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 1995

Synopsis

Having assured the members of London's exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg - stiff, repressed, English - starts by joining forces with an irrepressible Frenchman, Passepartout, and then with a ravishing Indian beauty, Aouda. Together they slice through jungles, over snowbound passes, even across an entire isthmus - only to get back five mintues late. Fogg faces despair and suicide, but Aouda makes a new man of him, able to face even the Reform Club again. Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) contains a strong dose of post-Romantic reality plus extensive borrowing from the author's own Journey to England and Scotland - but not a shred of science fiction. Its modernism lies instead in the experimental literary technique, with parallel plots, a narrator constantly made to look foolish, four characters in search of their own unconscious, and a unique twisting of space and time. Verne's classic, a bestseller for over a century, has never appeared in a critical edition before. William Butcher's stylish new translation moves as fast and as brilliantly as Fogg's own journey. This book is intended for students of French literature from sixth-form up; students of European modernism, the adventure story and of travel literature.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Jules Verne's classic, a bestseller for over a century, has never appeared in a critical edition before. William Butcher's stylish new translation moves as fast and as brilliantly as Fogg's own journey. (2008-09-11)

Présentation de l'éditeur

Jules Verne's classic, a bestseller for over a century, has never appeared in a critical edition before. William Butcher's stylish new translation moves as fast and as brilliantly as Fogg's own journey.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Oxford Paperbacks
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0192830937
ISBN 13 
9780192830937
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
252
Coordonnées du fabricant
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