A riveting race against time and an action-packed odyssey into the unknown,Around the World in Eighty Daysis a masterpiece of adventure fiction that has captured the imaginations of generations of readers and continues to enthrall us today.
Jules Verne (1828-1905), born in Nantes, France, was the author of
innumerable adventure stories that combined a vivid imagination
with a gift for popularizing science. Although he had studied law
in Paris, he devoted his life entirely to writing. His most popular
stories in addition to Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
include A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and The Mysterious Island
(1874-75), all available in Signet Classics editions. In addition,
he was the author of a number of successful plays, as well as a
popular history of exploration from Phoenician times to the
mid-nineteenth century, The Discovery of the Earth (1878-80). After
a long and active career in literature, Jules Verne died at Amiens,
France.
Herbert Lottman, a longtime resident of France, was the
correspondent for a number of American and British periodicals and
literary magazines. Among his twenty-seven books are biographies of
Jules Verne, Albert Camus, Colette, and Gustave Flaubert, as well
as of The Left Bank- Writers, Artists and Politics from the Popular
Front to the Cold War, The Purge (on postwar punishment of Nazi
collaborators), and The Fall of Paris- June 1940, all published in
both the United States and France.
Karen J. Renner teaches American literature and popular culture at
Northern Arizona University. She has published essays on the
apocalypse, the Antichrist, horror films, and reality ghost-hunting
television shows. She is the editor of The "Evil" Child in
Literature, Film and Popular Culture, a collection of essays.
“The reason Verne is still read by millions today is simply that he was one of the best storytellers who ever lived.”—Arthur C. Clarke
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