Around the World in Eighty Days

Zusatztext by far the best translations/critical editions available Informationen zum Autor William Butcher is Head of Languages at Ysing Yi Technical College, Hong Kong. Klappentext Around the World in Eighty Days has been a bestseller for over a century, but it has never before appeared in a critical edition. While most translations misread or even abridge the original, this stylish version is completely true to Verne's classic, moving as fast and as brilliantly as Phineas Fogg's own race against time. Around the World in Eighty Days offers a strong dose of post-romantic reality but not a shred of science fiction: its modernism lies instead in the experimental technique and Verne's unique twisting of space and time. Zusammenfassung Jules 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jules, Jules Verne
• Assisted by: William Butcher (Translation), William (Head of Languages Butcher (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2008
• EAN: 9780199552511
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955251-1
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; WORLD'S CLASSIC; Oxford World's Classics; WORLD'S CLASSIC; World's classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature