English | September 11, 2008 | ISBN: 0199552517 | EPUB | 297 Pages | 2.1 MB
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 minutes 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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八十天环游地球（译文名著精选）
内容简介
如果这个八十天环游地球的故事发生在21世纪，那决不会有任何人对它提出质疑。确实，在航天航空事业突飞猛进的今天，搭乘飞机绕行地球一周只需短短一两天。肯花上三个月乘坐轮船和火车环游世界的人，倘若不是对陌生的国度充满好奇、渴望探险的年轻人，便是腰缠万贯、做好了详细度假计划的富翁。无论如何，没有人会怀疑他们能在八十天或者更短的时间内完成旅行。科技的发展大大缩短了地球两端的距离。但是，如果把时钟往后拨回一个半世纪，如此仓促的旅行简直就是天方夜谭。因为这是发生在没有飞机、没有远洋轮船、也没有新干线的凡尔纳的1872年，是一个只能利用轿子、火车、马车、游艇、邮轮、雪橇甚至大象作交通工具的1872年。
作者简介
儒勒・凡尔纳(1828～1905)是19世纪法国著名的科幻小说和冒险小说作家，被誉为“现代科学幻想小说之父”，曾写过《神秘岛》、《地心游记》等著名科幻小说。凡尔纳的小说充满了科学元素，他笔下的许多科幻事物在现在都成为了现实。他的很多学生都成为了有名的发明家。
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