Classic Starts: Around the World in 80 Days Author: Retold from the Jules Verne original、Jules Gabriel Verne Hardcover: 160 pages Age Range: 7 - 9 years Publisher: Sterling; Abridged Ed edition (1 Aug. 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 1402736894 ISBN-13: 978-1402736896 Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 1.5 x 22.1 cm 内容简介 Take a thrilling whirlwind trip around the world with Phileas Fogg! When Fogga man of habit whose every day is just like the one beforemakes a bet that he can circle the globe ... 展开完整描述 ▼
Classic Starts: Around the World in 80 Days
Author: Retold from the Jules Verne original、Jules Gabriel Verne
Hardcover: 160 pages
Age Range: 7 - 9 years
Publisher: Sterling; Abridged Ed edition (1 Aug. 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1402736894
ISBN-13: 978-1402736896
Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 1.5 x 22.1 cm
内容简介
Take a thrilling whirlwind trip around the world with Phileas Fogg! When Fogga man of habit whose every day is just like the one beforemakes a bet that he can circle the globe and be back in his mens club in just 80 days, the race is on. Jules Vernes classic tale bubbles with excitement, suspense, and colorful locations. Abridged for easier reading and carefully rewritten, with Classic Starts, young readers can experience the wonder of timeless stories from an early age.
First serialized in a French newspaper in 1872, this is perhaps the most beloved and the most enduring of Jules Verne"s novels of imaginative escapades. When Englishman Phileas Fogg takes on a bet of £20,000 from his gentlemen"s club that he cannot circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or less--an unheard-of feat in the Victorian world--he sets off, with his manservant Passepartout at his side, on an series of exotic exploits and comic misadventures (Fogg is mistaken for a thief on the run by a pursuing Scotland Yard detective). An inspiration to generations of writers and readers, Verne"s fiction remains compelling and thoroughly enjoyable today. French author JULES GABRIEL VERNE (1828-1905) is considered the father of modern science fiction. Among his many groundbreaking books are Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870)
作者简介
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828–1905) was a French author who helped pioneer the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–1870), Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) and The Mysterious Island (1875). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised.
He is the second most translated author of all time, only behind Agatha Christie, with 4223 translations, according to Index Translationum. Some of his works have been made into films.
