Jules Verne

La Vuelta Al Mundo en Ochenta Dias: (Low Cost). Edicion Limitada Jules Verne

Publisher Marketing: Todo empezo en una discusion sobre la posibilidad de dar la vuelta al mundo en ochenta dias en el Reform Club de Londres, como podemos imaginar era la tipica discusion inglesa en la que solo podian participar los hombres. En ella se entablaba el tema de la imposibilidad de realizar dicho viaje en tan breve periodo de tiempo, pero era una discusion desigualada porque solo habia un defensor de la idea; Phileas Fogg, defensor hasta el punto de apostar toda su fortuna a que era capaz de realizar semejante hazana. La apuesta se acepto, y emprendio el viaje con su nuevo criado frances llamado Picaporte. Durante los primeros dias del viaje todo sen presentaba muy favorable, pero con la llegada al Cairo aparecio la primera contrariedad, porque se encontraron con el detective Fix, el cual habia confundido a Fogg con un ladron que habia robado cincuenta y cinco mil libras al banco de Inglaterra. Este va siguiendo a Fogg y a su criado por todos los lugares que recorren, pero con la mala suerte de no recibir nunca a tiempo la orden de detencion." Contributor Bio:  Verne, Jules Jules Gabriel Verne (French: 8 February 1828 - 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, Verne was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, not least because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted. Verne is the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, between the English-language writers Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare, and probably was the most-translated during the 1960s and 1970s. He is one of the authors sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction," as are H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.