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Around the World in 80 Days - The Original Classic Edition. Verne Jules

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  • Тип: Текст
  • Автор: Verne Jules
  • Издательство: Ingram(2020)
  • ISBN: 9781486410538
  • Страниц: 253
  • Язык: Английский
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Take a journey of imagination. &lt;p&gt; In this all-time favorite, Phileas Fogg and his manservant set out to win a wager by travelling around the world in 80 days. They embark on a fantastic, action-packed journey into a world filled with danger and beauty, from India to the American frontier. &lt;p&gt; This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. &lt;p&gt; This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. &lt;p&gt; Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: &lt;p&gt; When he breakfasted or dined all the resources of the club?its kitchens and pantries, its buttery and dairy?aided to crowd his table with their most succulent stores; he was served by the gravest waiters, in dress coats, and shoes with swan-skin soles, who proffered the viands in special porcelain, and on the finest linen; club decanters, of a lost mould, contained his sherry, his port, and his cinnamon-spiced claret; while his beverages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes. <br/> <br/> &lt;p&gt;It comprised all that was required of the servant, from eight in the morning, exactly at which hour Phileas Fogg rose, till half-past eleven, when he left the house for the Reform Club?all the details of service, the tea and toast at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving-water at thirty-seven minutes past nine, and the toilet at twenty minutes before ten. <br/> &lt;p&gt;Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club, an imposing edifice in Pall Mall, which could not have cost less than three millions. <br/> &lt;p&gt;He took out and consulted a pocket almanac, and added, As today is Wednesday, the 2nd of October, I shall be due in London in this very room of the Reform Club, on Saturday, the 21st of December, at a quarter before nine p.m.; or else the twenty thousand pounds, now deposited in my name at Barings, will belong to you, in fact and in right, gentlemen. <br/> &lt;p&gt;This was Fix, one of the detectives who had been dispatched from England in search of the bank robber; it was his task to narrowly watch every passenger who arrived at Suez, and to follow up all who seemed to be suspicious characters, or bore a resemblance to the description of the criminal, which he had received two days before from the police headquarters at London.

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