Classic Starts: Around the World in Eighty Days
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Classic Starts: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Verne's most outrageous voyage extraordinaire - a hasty world tour taken up on a gentlemen's club wager Mr. Phileas Fogg, master of precision, enters into the strangest wager ever made over the whist table - that he will circle the globe in 80 days. The news astounds Jean Passepartout, sometime wandering minstrel, bareback rider, funambulist, gymnast and fireman, now turned valet to Mr. Fogg in the expectancy of a quiet and well-regulated life. For the next 80 days, their lives are anything but quiet or well-regulated.Jules Verne preferred to call himself an author of voyages extraordinaires. An extraordinary voyage it is, from Fogg's announcement to Passepartout that they are to leave for Dover in ten minutes, to his triumphant return to the Reform Club at the last second
Born in 1828, Jules Verne initially followed the career track of an ordinary bourgeois Frenchman. However, literary ambition soon took over, and at the age of 20 he began publishing plays and short stories. By the end of his life, in 1905, Verne had published more than 60 books. Verne remains best known for Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781454942290 |
| ISBN 10 | 1454942290 |
| Title | Classic Starts: Around the World in Eighty Days |
| Author | Jules Verne |
| Series | Classic Starts |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Union Square & Co. |
| Year published | 2023-12-21 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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