标题: 《八十天环绕地球/Around the World in 80 Days（英文版）》作者：[法]儒勒·凡尔纳【完结】 [打印本页] 作者: 持续掉线中。 时间: 2012-11-12 12:04 标题: 《八十天环绕地球/Around the World in 80 Days（英文版）》作者：[法]儒勒·凡尔纳【完结】
MR. PHILEAS FOGG lived, in I872, at No. 7, Saville Row, BurlingtonGardens, the house in which Sheridan died in I8i4. He was one of themost noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemedalways to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, aboutwhom little was known, except that he was a polished man of theworld. People said that he resembled Byron——at least that his headwas Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live ona thousand years without growing old.Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Foggwas a Londoner. He was never seen on 'Change,nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms ofthe “City”; no ships ever came into Londondocks of which he was the owner;he had nopublic employment; he had never been enteredat any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple,or Lincoln's Inn.
Around the World in Eighty Days was writtenduring difficult times both for France and forVerne. It was during the Franco-Prussian Warin which Verne was conscripted as acoastguard, he was having money difficulties（his previous works were not paid royalties）,his father had died recently and he hadwitnessed a public execution which haddisturbed him. However despite all this, Vernewas excited about his work on the new book,the idea of which came to him one afternoonin a Paris car6 while reading a newspaper.
In particular three technologicalbreakthroughs occurred in i869-7o thatmade a tourist-like around-the-world journeypossible for the first time: the completion ofthe First Transcontinental Railroad in America（x869）, the linking of the Indian railways acrossthe sub-continent （1870）, and the opening ofthe Suez Canal （1869）.
作者简介：
Jules Gabriel Verne （1828——1905）was a French author who helpedpioneer the science-fiction genre.He is best known for his novels AJourney to the Center of the Earth0864）,From the Earth to the Moon0865）, Twenty Thousand LeaguesUnder the Sea （1869——1870）, Aroundthe World in Eighty Days （1873） andThe Mysterious Island （1875）.
Verne wrote about space, air,and underwater travel beforenavigable aircraft and practicalsubmarines were invented, andbefore any means of space travelhad been devised. Consequentlyhe is often referred to as the“Father of science fiction”, alongwith H. G. Wells. Verne is thesecond most translated author ofall time, only behind AgathaChristie, with 4162 translations.
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