Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days
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- Kategoria: kaunokirjallisuus, alakategoria: kaunokirjalliset sekasisältöiset teokset
- Materiaali: Pokkari
- Kustantaja: BARNES & NOBLE
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780760793626
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'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 steam-driven classic.