Origin: U.S.A.
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Around The World In 80 Days
Verne, Jules ; Eason, Laura
Synopsis "Around The World In 80 Days"
"A rollicking trek. Phileas Fogg, the imperturbable hero of AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, has returned to New York... Never journeyed with Fogg? Allow me. He is a London bachelor of independent means so regular in his habits that he fires a manservant for serving him a cup of tea at the wrong temperature. One day, at his club, Fogg wagers 20,000 pounds that a man can now make it around the world in 80 days and sets off that same night, with his new valet Passepartout, a former tightrope walker, in baffled tow. Traveling by train, boat and sledge, rescuing a plucky Indian widow along the way, he treats time zones like his own personal hopscotch court... How exhilarating it must have been, in an era before discount cruises and air travel, when most readers would count themselves lucky to journey a town or two away. How thrilling is it now? Still pretty thrilling." Alexis Soloski, The New York Times "Pure, unadulterated magic...utterly beguiling...a high-spirited, imagination-filled escapade.... Laura Eason's exceptionally graceful adaptation of the Jules Verne classic...manages to be both wise and fun-filled...it lays its bets on enchantment and invariably comes up a winner...a show that should sail the world. Highly recommended." Chicago Sun-Times "Light, cheerful and greatly entertaining...laudably committed to its theatricality.... Eason's staging is full of the visual imagination.... It's all a great deal of fun." Chicago Tribune "An engaging, family-friendly show. Highly recommended." The Chicago Reader "Eason's affable adaptation plays up elements of Verne's novel that are sometimes forgotten... Eason moves stylishly from set piece to set piece, from the cuckoo-clock orchestration of Fogg's London life to teacups sliding across a shipboard table." Time Out Chicago
Jules Gabriel Verne, conocido en los países hispanohablantes como Julio Verne (Nantes, 8 de febrero de 1828-Amiens, 24 de marzo de 1905), fue un escritor, dramaturgo y poeta francés, célebre por sus novelas de aventuras y por su profunda influencia en el género literario de la ciencia ficción. Nacido en una familia burguesa, estudió para continuar los pasos de su padre, Pierre Verne, como abogado pero muy joven decidió abandonar ese camino para dedicarse a la literatura. Su colaboración con el editor Pierre-Jules Hetzel dio como fruto la creación de Viajes extraordinarios, una popular serie de novelas de aventuras escrupulosamente documentadas y visionarias entre las que se incluían las famosas De la Tierra a la Luna (1865), Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino (1870), La vuelta al mundo en ochenta días (1872) o La isla misteriosa (1874). Ya antes había publicado Cinco semanas en globo (1863) y Viaje al centro de la Tierra (1864). Es uno de los escritores más importantes de Francia y de toda Europa gracias a la evidente influencia de sus libros en la literatura vanguardista y el surrealismo, y desde 1979 es el segundo autor más traducido en el mundo, después de Agatha Christie. Se le considera, junto a H. G. Wells, uno de los «padres de la ciencia ficción». Fue condecorado con la Legión de Honor en 1892 por sus aportes a la educación y a la ciencia.
