عرض سجل المادة البسيط

dc.contributor.authorKristine, Brown
dc.contributor.authorHood, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-03T00:19:22Z
dc.date.available2015-03-03T00:19:22Z
dc.date.issued1989
dc.identifier.citationNew York: Cambridge University, 1989en_US
dc.identifier.isbn0521348951
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/475
dc.description.abstractAround the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English gentleman living in solitude. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. Very little can be said about his social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having dismissed his former valet, James Foster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 °F (29 °C) instead of 86 °F (30 °C), Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout as a replacement. At the Reform Club, Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days. He accepts a wager for £20,000 (equal to about £1.6 million today) from his fellow club members, which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days. Accompanied by Passepartout, he leaves London by train at 8:45 P.M. on Wednesday, October 2, 1872, and is due back at the Reform Club at the same time 80 days later, Saturday, December 21, 1872.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCambridge Universityen_US
dc.subjectEnglish language Rhetoricen_US
dc.subjectEssay Authorshipen_US
dc.subjectReport writingen_US
dc.subjectCollege readersen_US
dc.titleWriting Mattersen_US
dc.typeBooken_US


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