{"product_id":"around-the-world-in-eighty-days-the-extraordinary-journeys","title":"Around the World in Eighty Days: The Extraordinary Journeys","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaving 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eAround 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Butcher's stylish new translation moves as fast and as brilliantly as Fogg's own journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nPublished: in UK in 2008\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 247\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN 13: 9780199552511\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN 10: 0199552517\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jules Verne, William Butcher (TRN)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32777850388583,"sku":"","price":11.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/0199552517_66453c3e-e2e8-4a2f-94bc-07f50b2a4861.jpg?v=1601545926","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/around-the-world-in-eighty-days-the-extraordinary-journeys","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}