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    Around the World in Eighty Days

    By Jules Verne

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    Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix, a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of a notorious bank robber.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFlip
    Release dateMay 8, 2018
    ISBN9782291018551
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    Jules Verne

    <p><b>Jules Verne</b> nació en Nantes en 1828, hijo de un abogado. Estudió y se doctoró en Derecho en París, siguiendo los derechos de su padre, pero, cuando decidió dedicarse a las letras, éste dejó de mantenerlo. Con la ayuda de los Dumas, padre e hijo, obtiene un empleo en el Théâtre-Lyrique de París y consigue estrenar en 1850 una comedia, <em>Les pailles rompues</em>. En 1851 empieza a publicar relatos en la revista <em>Le musée des familles</em>. En 1857 se convierte en agente de bolsa y empieza a viajar por Inglaterra, Escocia, Noruega y Escandinavia. En 1862 propone al editor Pierre-Jules Hetzel su novela <em>Cinco semanas en globo</em>, que se publica al año siguiente con un éxito extraordinario, y se liga a él con un contrato para escribir novelas y cuentos para el <em>Magasin d'éducation et de récréation</em> durante veinte años. Ahí inicia su serie de <em>Viajes extraordinarios</em>, que llegaría a ocupar sesenta y cuatro volúmenes. Nuevos viajes por Europa, África y América del Norte le servirían de inspiración. <em>Viaje al centro de la Tierra</em> (1864), <em>De la Tierra a la Luna</em> (1865), <em>Los hijos del capitán Grant</em> (1868), <em>Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino</em> (1870), <em>La vuelta al mundo en ochenta días</em> (1873), <em>La isla misteriosa</em> (1874-1875), <em>Michel Strogoff</em> (1876) o <em>Las tribulaciones de un chino en China</em> (1879) son algunas de sus más célebres novelas, que cautivaron a los lectores y entraron a formar parte del imaginario universal de lo siglos XIX y XX. Padre de la ciencia ficción, su interés por la tecnología y sus posibilidades es visible en <em>El castillo de los Cárpatos</em> (1892; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. CXVIII). Verne murió en Amiens en 1905.</p>

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