• Publication: Around the World in Eighty DaysPublication Record # 711215
• Author: Jules Verne
• Date: date unknown
• ISBN: 0-14-044906-X [978-0-14-044906-8]
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Pub. Series: Penguin Classics
• Price:
  £5.99^?£: UK pound
• Pages: 288
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: NOVEL
• Cover: Around the World in Eighty Days by Léon Benett
• Notes: Second printing per number line ( 2 ). "Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours first published in book form in 1873. This translation published in 2004". "Translation, Notes, Chronology copyright Michael Glencross, 2004", "Introduction copyright Brian Aldiss, 2004". Table of contents has "Chronology" (vii), "Introduction" (xi), "Suggestions for further reading" (xxv), "Note on the translation" (xxvii), Around the World in Eighty Days (1) and "Notes" (231). Also priced CAN. 15.00 and U.S.A. $10.00. Back cover states "Cover: Detail from 'The Ride on the Elephant, Fogg in relative comfort, Passepartout somewhat unhappy', original illustration by L. Benett for Around the World in Eighty Days (1873 edition) (photo: Mary Evans Picture Library). Hand-colouring by Helena Zakrzewsko-Rucinska." Source:

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• Around the World in Eighty Days • [Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours • 11] • (2004) • novel by Jules Verne (trans. of Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours 1873)
• xi • Introduction (Around the World in Eighty Days) • essay by Brian W. Aldiss (variant of Introduction (Around the World in 80 Days) 2004) [as by Brian Aldiss]