{"product_id":"9780192837783-secondhand-around-the-world-in-eighty-days","title":"Around the World in Eighty Days","description":"Having 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 mintues late. Fogg faces despair and suicide, but Aouda makes a new man of him, able to face even the Reform Club again. Around 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. William Butcher's stylish new translation moves as fast and as brilliantly as Fogg's own journey.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49162790043867,"sku":"9780192837783-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/adf1f55a-6fbb-47ab-91dc-84f8c1e61976.jpg?v=1787237557","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780192837783-secondhand-around-the-world-in-eighty-days","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}