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| - 'elegant' - Daily Telegraph
- 'by far the best translations/critical editions available' - Science-Fiction Studies
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| Description |
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.
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Readership: Students of French literature from sixth-form up; students of European modernism, the adventure story and of travel literature.
| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Jules Verne
Translated with an introduction and notes by William Butcher, Head of Languages, Ysing Yi Technical College
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